Wiktionary
alt. 1 The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. 2 A vehicle used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. 3 Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. n. 1 The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. 2 A vehicle used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. 3 Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. vb. To transport patients by medevac.
WordNet
n. the evacuation of persons (usually be air transportation) to a place where they can recieve medical care [syn: medical evacuation, medevac]
Wikipedia
Medivac may refer to:
- medical evacuation
- Medivac (TV series), an Australian television series
Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation. The series was also known as Adrenaline Junkies overseas.
Medivac was set in the emergency department of Brisbane's fictional Bethlehem West Hospital, where a dedicated medical team work in the demanding world of emergency medicine. The team specialises in the evacuation of disaster areas, journeying by helicopter to remote areas inaccessible by ambulance. They also work in the city streets and the suburbs involving themselves with the patients, their families and the police.
Usage examples of "medivac".
Will Orram for his elegant and detailed explanations of mono amine oxidase and medivac surgery, supplied during a busy time in his life.
Surely the medivac team monitoring in-processing could use an extra pair of hands.
Max Keagan ate silently, moving his cookie to the far side of the tray away from Crusty while the rest of the medivac crew and medical staffers took their seats in the nearly deserted mess hall.
From her jump seat behind Crusty piloting the medivac, Monica watched the dirt runway come closer.
Military-green privacy curtains offered a modicum of isolation from the rest of the noise and bustle in the medivac aircraft, exams in progress, wounded being treated.
An hour later, another medivac arrived from Landfall, this one with refrigeration chests.
I took that training in emergency medivac surgical techniques a couple of years ago.
As it was, the medivacs had to come in low and twisting around the base of the mountains to avoid being hit by bandit fire, and the wounded carried more than a mile to the dust-offs.
This would inform air traffic controllers that the helicopter was on an emergency medivac mission.
There were two medivacs, and an APF with field medics and AG sleds to bring in the wounded.
Mellon had gotten out later than he had, when two more medivacs arrived at the fire base.
When the medivacs went back again for casualties, about all they found were dead.
When Korea came along, it refitted helicopters with special radio gear needed for medivacs and the increasingly complex ground-air networks.