triage
Meaning of triage
noun
- (in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.
a triage nurse
- decide the order of treatment of (patients or casualties).
victims were triaged by paramedics before being transported to hospitals
early 18th century (in the sense ‘the action of sorting items according to quality’): from French, from trier ‘separate out’. The current sense dates from the 1930s, from the military system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield.
Information about triage
- The plural form of triage is: triages.
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Hyphenation of triage
triage
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- triage is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of triage
Anagrams of triage
aigret, gaiter, Gerita, tairge, tirage, trigae
Words that rhyme with triage
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