Wiktionary
n. A place where wounds are dressed.
WordNet
n. (military) a first aid station located near a combat area for giving aid to the wounded [syn: aid station]
Usage examples of "dressing station".
The dressing station was on the Austrian side of the river under the edge of the hill and stretcher-bearers would bring the wounded back across the pontoon bridge.
Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.
The order given, I sent word to the forward dressing station to attend to the General.
He managed, however, to crawl to a dressing station, where he was placed in a mule-drawn ambulance and taken to a field hospital.