Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

emergency medical technician

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: emer-gen-cy med-i-cal tech-ni-cian
IPA

46

Scrabble Score

26

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)"

Inflected Forms

emergency medical technicians (plural) EMT (abbreviation)

Phrases

emergency medical services

Frequently Paired Words

EMS emergency medical services prehospital EMT EMR

Synonyms

paramedic[Appendix:Glossary

Questions

What does emergency medical technician mean?: An ambulance worker who works in patient stabilization and emergency transport. In some services, an EMT is a trainee who is not a paramedic; in other services, a paramedic is a senior-level EMT, sometimes called an EMT-P in contrast with an EMT-I, etc.

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