AMBULANCE

n. A?m’bu*la?ns. From ambulare, to walk about. Fr., ambulance. Ger., Ambulanz, It., ambulanza. Sp., ambulancia. 1. As used by most European writers, a military hospital, together with all its Gy ies so arranged as to be capable of accompepygan army in its movements. [A, Field no spitaL. 2 As occasionally used by European writers, the corps of medical officers, nurses, and ‘THE AMBULACRAL AREA OF others attached to a field hospital. 3. AN FCHINODERM, (AF- ‘As commonly used in Great Britain and — TER NICHOLSON.) the United States, and as recently ema, {nter-ambulacra; 6, ambulacre, ployed to some extent on the continent ‘of Europe, a conveyance, pease a wheeled vehicle, for transospital, either in military or in porting the sick or wounded to a t Cf. Field nosPpITAL, HosPITAL railway car, HosPITAL civil life. O, no; 0%, not; 0%, whole; Th thin; Th?, the; U, like 00 in too; U*, blue; US, Inll; U4, full; U5, urn; U®, like ü (German). Transport, LITTER, STRETCHER, CACOLET, AMo0, BEARING-SEAT, Apron of succor, DANDIE, DHOOLEY, HAMMOCK, and PANNIER. —As bearers. Fr., brancard i ers. Men detailed for lifting the wounded and bearing them on stretchers to the ambulance. [Perey (A, 244).] [A, 386.] See Flying a.—A. wagon. Fr., voiture (ou See A, (3d def.) —Dépot THE COOLIDGE AMBULANCE WAGON. —A. volante (Fr.). cai on) d’a. It., vettura d'ambulanza.. (Fr.). A sheltered situation, with a supply of water near by, to which the wounded are carried in the flying a. wagons. [A, 301. i He U. S. ARMY AMBULANCE WAGON. [A, 386.] —Flying a. Fr., A. volante. A name given by Baron Larrey to a movable field hospital devised by him, intended to be set up at the front on the battle-field, to which the wounded could be transported immediately in the a. wagons (also devised by him); so called to distinguish it from the old field hospital of the French army, which was required to be situated at the distance of a league from the army. [Larrey (A, 244).]—Sac. (Fr.), A leather knap- —— H | THE TRIPLER AMBULANCE WAGON sack divided into compartments for containing materials for dre ings; carried by the orderlies in Larrey’s fiying a. organization. [A, 244.]—Soldats. (Fr.). Enlisted men detailed for duty at a [A, 386.] field hospital. [Percy (A, 24).]—Voiture. (Fr). See 4. (8d def.),—Voitures d’a volante (Fr.). _ Larrey's name for the a. wagons devised by him for use in connection with his flying a. [A, 244]