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urgencia

urgency

noun oor-HEN-syah Less Common
Body & Health Medicine

Also means

emergency room

Usage Note

Urgencia means urgency (the quality of being urgent) and, in the plural, urgencias is the standard term for a hospital emergency department in Spain and Latin America — equivalent to A&E or the ER. Con urgencia means urgently. The adjective is urgente.

Examples

"Llevaron al herido a urgencias de inmediato."

Natural Translation

They took the injured person to the emergency room immediately.

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