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emergency in English:

1. serious or dangerous situation that needs immediate action serious or dangerous situation that needs immediate action



2. an unexpected and dangerous situation that must be dealt with immediately an unexpected and dangerous situation that must be dealt with immediately



3. A serious situation that needs immediate action A serious situation that needs immediate action



4. a serious and dangerous situation a serious and dangerous situation



5. medical medical


Doctors use medical equipment.
Medical helicopters take very sick people to hospitals.
Those selected will have to face extensive medical and psychological tests.
If it doesn't get better after two weeks, you definitely must get a medical exam.
Medical help arrives promptly after an accident.
The reduction in obstetricians and gynecologists is a reflection of the decrease in births, thus reducing need for medical care.
Tell him that I have perished and that my cadaver is now being used by medical students at a leading Catholic university.
In the case of patient death during the course of medical treatment, even if there is medical error present, it is not automatically legally considered to be an "unusual death."
Foreign accent syndrome is an as-yet unexplained medical condition where the patient can no longer pronounce his mother tongue correctly and seems to have a foreign accent.
This group passes out information on such things as travel and health care, and encourages its members to vote on issues that affect this age group such as legislation regulating the insurance industry, medical care and housing.
Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for poverty-level women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.
We can say that there's not a clear winner in terms of a policy to curtail medical expenses and benefits.
Working, healthy people contribute to the reduction of medical expenses, the rise of the eligible age for benefits, and the curtailment of their costs.

6. a sudden serious and dangerous event or situation a sudden serious and dangerous event or situation