MEDEVAC


Meaning of MEDEVAC in English

/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.

Also, Medevac, medivac .

[ 1965-70, Amer.; med ( ical ) evac ( uation ); presumably by ellipsis from medevac helicopter ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .