medevac

medevac
/med"euh vak'/, n., v., medevacked, medevacking.
n.
1. a helicopter for evacuating the wounded from a battlefield.
2. an ambulance or other vehicle equipped for emergency transport of medical patients.
3. any of the trained personnel transporting or otherwise tending to the sick or wounded in a medevac.
v.t.
4. to transport (sick or wounded persons) by medevac.
[1965-70, Amer.; med(ical) evac(uation); presumably by ellipsis from medevac helicopter]

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