emergency medical technician

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emergency medical technician

noun emergency medical technicians · EMT

  1. 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. Near-synonym: paramedic (sometimes broadly synonymous)

    Similar: paramedic[Appendix:Glossary

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@misc{emergency_medical_technician_2026,
  title = {emergency medical technician},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/emergency%20medical%20technician},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}