ambulance

noun

1. An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.

   “The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.”

2. A mobile field hospital.
3. (UK)A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
4. (UK, obsolete)Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
5. (US, obsolete)Synonym of covered wagon.

verb

1. (transitive)To transport by ambulance.

   “Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.”