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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casualty \Cas"u*al*ty\, n.; pl. Casualties. [F. casualit['e], LL. casualitas.]
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That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Losses that befall them by mere casualty.
--Sir W. Raleigh. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
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pl. (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.
Syn: Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "chance, accident; incidental charge," from casual (adj.) on model of royalty, penalty, etc. Casuality had some currency 16c.-17c. but is now obsolete. Meaning "losses in numbers from a military or other troop" is from late 15c. Meaning "an individual killed, wounded, or lost in battle" is from 1844.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) chance nature; randomness. 2 Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster. 3 A person suffering from injury or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence. 4 (context British English) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
WordNet
n. someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
someone injured or killed in an accident [syn: injured party]
an accident that causes someone to die [syn: fatal accident]
a decrease of military personnel or equipment
Wikipedia
Casualty may refer to:
- Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
- The emergency department of a hospital, also known as a Casualty Department or Casualty Ward (chiefly in the UK and in some English-speaking Commonwealth nations)
- Casualty (TV series), a long-running British emergency medical drama series
- Casualty 1900s, a British medical drama, then series, including Casualty 1906, Casualty 1907, and Casualty 1909
- Casualty insurance, a type of insurance
Casualty, stylised as CASUALY, is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One (sometimes with a short break in the summer between series, but not always). It is the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world, and the most enduring medical drama shown on prime time television in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 6 September 1986. The original producer was Geraint Morris.
The programme is set in the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department. The show has very few ties to its sister programme Holby City, which began as a spin-off from Casualty in 1999, set in the same hospital. Casualty is shown weekly on a Saturday evening, which has been its time slot since the early 1990s.
Casualty's exterior shots were mainly filmed outside the Ashley Down Centre in Bristol from 1986 until 2002 when they moved to the centre of Bristol for just over nine years. In 2011 Casualty celebrated its 25th birthday; following that, for the Bristol finale, they filmed the Emergency department catching fire and subsequently exploding. After 25 years in Bristol, Casualty moved to its new home at the Roath Lock Studios in Cardiff where it is currently filmed.
The 1000th episode of Casualty aired on 25 June 2016, episode 39 of series 30. For an episode guide, see List of Casualty episodes.
A casualty in military usage is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture and desertion.
In civilian usage, a casualty is a person who is killed, wounded or injured by some event, and is usually used to describe multiple deaths and injuries due to violent incidents or disasters. Casualties is sometimes misunderstood to mean fatalities, but non-fatal injuries are also casualties.
The twenty-third series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 13 September 2008, and concluded on 1 August 2009.
The twenty-fourth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 12 September 2009 and concluded on 21 August 2010. Events of the series included a crossover with sister show Holby City.
The second series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 12 September 1987 and finished on 19 December 1987.
The third series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 September 1988 and finished on 4 November 1988. Unlike the previous two series', Casualty's third came with a reduced episode count of just 10 altogether.
The fourth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 8 September 1989 and finished on 1 December 1989.
The sixth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 6 September 1991 and finished on 27 February 1992.
The final episode of the series was the only episode to be screened after Christmas; it had been scheduled for 20 December 1991 but was delayed by two months as its original airing date was the day before the third anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster in the Scottish borders in which 270 people had been killed.
The first series of the British medical drama television series Casualty began airing on 6 September 1986, and concluded on 27 December 1986. The show was created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin after the pair were both hospitalised for different reasons. Brock and Unwin were deeply concerned with what they saw within hospitals and decided to pitch a document in 1985 for the BBC. It was reported the pitch document 'read like a manifesto', and the show was then commissioned. Geraint Morris was appointed as the show's producer. Casualty was commissioned to boost ratings on BBC One at peak times after ratings began to decline between 1984 and 1985. Prior to first series airing, Brock and Unwin visited a hospital in Bristol where they met a charge nurse called Pete Salt. Salt was appointed the series medical advisor.
The first series of Casualty consisted of fifteen episodes, which aired weekly on a Saturday night. Each episode was individually titled. The first series featured ten main characters, who were all appointed different roles within the A&E department. By the end of the first series, two actors left the show, both in episode fifteen: Julia Watson (Baz Samuels) and George Harris (Clive King).
The fifth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 7 September 1990 and finished on 7 December 1990.
The seventh series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 12 September 1992 and finished on 27 February 1993.
The eighth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 18 September 1993 and finished on 26 February 1994.
The ninth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 17 September 1994 and finished on 25 March 1995.
The tenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 16 September 1995 and finished on 24 February 1996.
Notable events of the series include Ash's marriage to Laura, Baz's affair with Charlie, Baz's pregnancy, and a gas explosion.
The eleventh series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 14 September 1996 and finished on 22 February 1997.
Notable events of the series include the death of Josh's wife and children as a result of a house fire, the birth of Charlie and Baz's son Louis, and the near-fatal stabbing of Jude at the end of the series.
The twelfth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 11 September 1997 and finished on 28 February 1998. The first episode was originally due to be shown on the evening of Saturday 6 September, but this was delayed until the following Thursday due to coverage of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales earlier on that day, as the BBC felt it would be inappropriate to air the episode so soon after such an event.
This series was notable as two of the episodes (episodes 1 and 17) had an extended 'feature-length' running time of 75 minutes, compared to the standard episode length of 50 minutes. Episode 17, The Golden Hour, aired on 27 December 1997, featured a multiple motorway pile-up.
The series also featured the first official two-part story, Everlasting Love, which played out over episodes 25 and 26.
The fourteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 18 September 1999 and finished on 25 March 2000. It saw another increase, this time to 30 episodes.
The fifteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 16 September 2000 and finished on 28 April 2001. It saw another increase, this time to 36 episodes, including two hour-long self-contained 'specials', Sympathy for the Devil (episode 8) and Something from the Heart (episode 23), which were shown in addition to the regular Saturday night episodes.
The sixteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 15 September 2001 and finished on 29 June 2002. It saw another increase, this time to 40 episodes. On 30 March 2002, Episode 350 had to be shown on BBC Two, due to some schedule changes on BBC One, the Queen Mother had died that day.
The seventeenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 14 September 2002 and finished on 21 June 2003.
The eighteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 13 September 2003 and finished on 28 August 2004. It saw another increase, this time to 46 episodes.
The nineteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 11 September 2004 and finished on 20 August 2005. It saw another increase, this time to 47 episodes. For the Christmas episodes of the series, two cross-over episodes with Holby City were shown, titled as: " Casualty@Holby City".
The thirteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 5 September 1998 and finished on 13 March 1999.
It saw another increase, this time to 28 episodes (the first two episodes aired on consecutive nights), including a feature-length Christmas episode. The series also acted as a launchpad for characters and storylines in the spin-off series Holby City, which started in January 1999.
The series saw the arrival of several new characters including Max Gallagher and Sean Maddox, while Mark Grace left halfway through the series and George Woodman left at the end of it. Early in the series came the return of Lisa "Duffy" Duffin, last seen as a guest in the two part conclusion of the previous season.
The twentieth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty aired on BBC One from 10 September 2005 to 26 August 2006. The series ran for 48 episodes, including two multi-episode crossovers with Holby City, broadcast as Casualty@Holby City.
The twenty-first series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 23 September 2006 and finished on 4 August 2007. This saw an increase in episodes to 48.
The twenty-second series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 8 September 2007 and finished on 9 August 2008.
The twenty-fifth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 4 September 2010 and concluded on 6 August 2011. The series featured several crossovers with spin-off show Holby City.
This series has featured the death of Polly Emmerson ( Sophia Di Martino), and the departures of Adam Trueman ( Tristan Gemmill), Yuki Reid ( Will Sharpe), and Kirsty Clements ( Lucy Gaskell). This series has welcomed Dylan Keogh ( William Beck) and Madiha "Mads" Durrani (Hasina Haque), with the latter departing at the end of the series; and has seen the return of Linda Andrews ( Christine Tremarco).
The twenty-sixth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 13 August 2011, five days after the end of the previous series. This series featured forty-two episodes, which was five episodes less than the previous series. Series twenty-six was the first series to broadcast in high definition, with the first high definition episode broadcast from episode 17. The episode also saw the first episode to be filmed at the new set in Cardiff. The show saw its twenty-fifth anniversary in September 2011 and in March 2012, the show aired their first ever three-part story which centred on gang violence. The series concluded with a two-part riot storyline, entitled '#HolbyRiot', which aired on 21 and 22 July 2012. The series was originally planned to finish on 21 July, but due to a postponed episode on 30 June, the finale was moved to the following day.
This series welcomed Lloyd Asike ( Michael Obiora), Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher ( Alex Walkinshaw), Tom Kent ( Oliver Coleman), Sam Nicholls (Charlotte Salt), and Scarlett Conway (Madeleine Mantock) - the latter of which left at the end of the series. The series also saw the departures of Ruth Winters ( Georgia Taylor), Jay Faldren ( Ben Turner) and Lenny Lyons ( Steven Miller); and marked the first of three guest stints for Tamzin Bayle ( Gemma Atkinson).
The twenty-seventh series of Casualty began airing on BBC One on 18 August 2012 with an episode featuring a disaster at a music festival. Filming series 26 was completed in April 2012 and filming series 27 began a week later. The first episode was in the normal formata 50-minute episode. This season is 44 episodes, increasing from 42 for the previous one. Viewing figures for the first episode were 5.19 million viewers, continuing to be one of the most watched programmes of a Saturday night.
This series saw the departures of Dylan Keogh ( William Beck), Linda Andrews ( Christine Tremarco), Lloyd Asike ( Michael Obiora), and long-standing character Nick Jordan ( Michael French); as well as the returns of former nurse, now consultant Martin "Ash" Ashford ( Patrick Robinson) who last appeared fifteen years previously and former ambulance dispatcher, now receptionist Louise Tyler (Azuka Oforka). This series also saw the introduction of four new student nurses: Ally Hunter (Rebecca Newman), Aoife O'Reilly ( Gemma-Leah Devereux), Robyn Miller (Amanda Henderson), and Jamie Collier ( Daniel Anthony) - with only the latter two receiving a promotion to staff nurse and continuing into the next series.
The twenty-eighth series of Casualty began airing on BBC One on 3 August 2013, one week after the end of the previous series. This series consisted of 48 episodes, the highest episode order since series 24. The series concluded on 23 August 2014.
This series saw the departures of Tom Kent ( Oliver Coleman), Sam Nicholls (Charlotte Salt), Jamie Collier ( Daniel Anthony) and Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher ( Alex Walkinshaw), and temporary departures of Zoe Hanna ( Sunetra Sarker) and Kathleen "Dixie Dixon ( Jane Hazlegrove). This series also welcomed Lily Chao ( Crystal Yu), Rita Freeman ( Chloe Howman), Ethan Hardy ( George Rainsford), Caleb Knight ( Richard Winsor) and Ben "Lofty" Chiltern ( Lee Mead); as well as the returns of Holby City character, Connie Beauchamp ( Amanda Mealing), and paramedics Iain Dean ( Michael Stevenson) and Tamzin Bayle ( Gemma Atkinson).
The twenty-ninth series of Casualty began airing on 30 August 2014, one week after the end of the previous series. The series consisted of 46 episodes, and concluded on 23 August 2015. The series saw the shock death of Jeff Collier ( Matt Bardock), as well as the departures of long-standing characters Tess Bateman ( Suzanne Packer) and Martin Ashford ( Patrick Robinson). This series also welcomed Honey Wright ( Chelsee Healey), Jacob Masters ( Charles Venn) and Grace Beauchamp (Emily Carey); as well as the returns of Maggie Coldwell ( Susan Cookson), Sam Bateman ( Luke Bailey) and Ben Harding ( Mark Letheren).
The thirtieth series of Casualty began airing on 29 August 2015, six days after the end of the previous series, and concluded on 30 July 2016. The opening two episodes of this series saw a two-part story, written and directed by series co-creator Paul Unwin, which featured the return of Lisa "Duffy" Duffin in a guest role; Duffy returned later in the series for another guest appearance. This series consists of 43 episodes, including the broadcast of the show's 1000th episode on 25 June 2016.
This series saw the arrivals of Jez Andrews (Lloyd Everitt), David Hide ( Jason Durr) and Elle Gardner ( Jaye Griffiths), along with the arrivals of Alicia Munroe ( Chelsea Halfpenny), who arrived in episode four before leaving in episode eleven and then returning in episode forty-three, and Jack Diamond ( Alistair Brammer), who arrived in episode fourteen before departing in episode thirty-two. Three long-standing actors left in this series: both Jane Hazlegrove ( Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon) and Sunetra Sarker ( Zoe Hanna) left after nine years on the show, Dixie in episode twenty-one and Sunetra in episode thirty-four, while Charles Dale ( Big Mac) left in episode thirty-eight, after eight years on the show. Other actors who departed in this series included Lee Mead ( Lofty Chiltern), who made a temporary departure from the show in episode twenty-seven, and Chloe Howman ( Rita Freeman) who departed in episode forty-two.
The thirty-first series of Casualty will begin airing from 27 August 2016. For this series, to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, Casualty will air a special feature-length episode, to commemorate thirty years of the medical drama. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales will be recording a special soundtrack for the episode. The series will see well-established Holby City characters crossover with the show, including guest appearances from Jac Naylor ( Rosie Marcel), Henrik Hanssen ( Guy Henry) and Adrian Fletcher ( Alex Walkinshaw).
There will also be a "huge stunt" which will threaten the hospital as part of the thirtieth anniversary celebrations. This series will also see the permanent return of original character Lisa "Duffy" Duffin ( Cathy Shipton) who made her last appearance in the 1000th episode in the previous series. It will also feature several guest returns from various characters have appeared in the series across its thirty year on air during the thirtieth anniversary episode. This series consists of 43 episodes.
Usage examples of "casualty".
He roughly pushed Adelaide and Prickles around the fallen picket, and shoved them in through the cracked glass doors of the casualty department.
Angarak atrocities, their archery improved to the point that no place in the horde was truly safe from Asturian arrows, and Kal Torak of Mallorea took horrid casualties as he marched west toward Vo Mimbre.
The number of casualties unsettled Batu, for the heavy losses reflected too well on the accuracy of the enemy bowmen.
Wounded blackcoats were being helped into the castle while the orange soldiers dragged their own casualties down to a camp under the edge of a wood.
The German bombing accuracy was poor and their bombs often fell into civilian areas and many casualties occurred there.
If McGarvey chose not to cooperate or, as Carrara had warned, if he were taken by surprise, there would be casualties.
If a large-scale attack resulted in mass casualties, the first choices would be doxycycline and ciprofloxacin, taken orally, for both adults and children.
If there were a mass casualty, ciprofloxacin would be the drug of first choice for pregnant women.
United States would be unwilling to tolerate high costs, and particularly heavy casualties, to liberate Kuwait.
He quickly granted permission to counterflood as necessary to take the list off the ship and frowned at news of the heavy casualties in Repair Two.
During the gales here at Yokohama a merchantman had been blown ashore, some buildings damaged, many cutters and fishing boats lost, havoc wrought in the village and Yoshiwara, many tents in the military encampment on the bluff blown away but no casualties there, or in the Settlement.
Fitz was suddenly surrounded by a mad rush of activity: doctors pulling out carts of instruments, preparing beds, getting ready for casualties.
The only casualties had been, unfortunately, Marco Galliani and his bronze dragon, Duluth, who had collided with a sled.
The GIs, moving into Nijmegen and Eindhoven and their other objectives, started taking casualties.
Twenty percent casualties were too damned many so soon after Elysium, even if they had secured every one of their objectives this time.