paramedic

English

Etymology

From para- +‎ medic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈmɛdɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

paramedic (plural paramedics)

1. A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility.
2. (US) A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting.

Coordinate terms

• medic (functionally synonymous in some contexts but not necessarily idiomatically interchangeable)

Related terms

• paraclinical
• paramedical

Translations

person trained to stabilize people outside of hospital

• Catalan: paramèdic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輔助醫護人員 / 辅助医护人员 (fǔzhù yīhù rényuán)

• Danish: paramediciner c
• Esperanto: ambulancisto, ambulancistino (female)
• Finnish: ensihoitaja (fi)
• French: ambulancier (fr) m, ambulancière (fr) f, brancardier (fr) m, brancardière (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sanitäter (de) m, Sanitäterin (de), Rettungssanitäter (de) m, Rettungssanitäterin (de) f, Sanitätspersonal n (collective noun)
• Greek: παραϊατρικό προσωπικό n (paraïatrikó prosopikó), διασώστης (el) m (diasóstis)
• Hungarian: mentős (hu), mentőápoló, mentőtiszt, rohammentős
• Indonesian: paramedis (id)
• Italian: paramedico (it) m
• Japanese: コ・メディカル (ko-medikaru), コメディカル (komedikaru), 医療補助者 (いりょうほじょしゃ, iryō hojosha)
• Macedonian: бо́лничар m (bólničar), болни́чарка f (bolníčarka), санита́р m (sanitár), санита́рка f (sanitárka), парамедицина́р m (paramedicinár), парамедицина́рка f (paramedicinárka)
• Maori: manapou
• Polish: ratownik (pl) m, ratowniczka (pl) f, ratownik medyczny m, ratowniczka medyczna f
• Portuguese: paramédico (pt) m, paramédica f
• Romanian: paramedic (ro) m, paramedică f
• Russian: санита́р (ru) m (sanitár), санита́рка (ru) f (sanitárka), параме́дик (ru) m (paramédik), фе́льдшер (ru) m (félʹdšer)
• Spanish: paramédico (es) m, paramédica (es) f
• Swedish: ambulanspersonal (collective noun), akutvårdare, sjukvårdare (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: పారామెడిక్ (pārāmeḍik)
• Turkish: sıhhiyeci (tr), acıl tıp teknisyeni, paramedik
• Welsh: parafeddyg (cy) m
• Yiddish: פֿעלדשער m (feldsher)

See also

• EMS, emergency medical services
• EMT, emergency medical technician

Anagrams

• preadamic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English paramedic. By surface analysis, para- +‎ medic.

Adjective

paramedic m or n (feminine singular paramedică, masculine plural paramedici, feminine and neuter plural paramedice)

1. paramedical

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	paramedic		paramedică		paramedici	paramedice
	definite	paramedicul		paramedica		paramedicii	paramedicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	paramedic		paramedice		paramedici	paramedice
	definite	paramedicului		paramedicei		paramedicilor	paramedicelor

Noun

paramedic m (plural paramedici)

1. paramedic

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	paramedic	paramedicul		paramedici	paramedicii
genitive-dative	paramedic	paramedicului		paramedici	paramedicilor
vocative	paramedicule			paramedicilor