ambulance
vehicle equipped for transporting and caring for ill and wounded people
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Summary
ambulance is a vehicle functional class[1]. ambulance draws 4,085 Wikipedia views per month (vehicle functional class category, ranking #1,446 of 31).[2]
Key Facts
- Operator: ambulance driver[3], emergency medical services[4]
- Subclass of: emergency vehicle[5], rescue vehicle[6], microbus[7]
- Part of: emergency medical services[8]
- Commons category: Ambulances[9]
- Unicode character: 🚑[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ambulances[11]
- Commons gallery: Ambulance[12]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], The New Student's Reference Work[15]
- Used by: emergency medical services[16], patient transport[17]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C180918[18]
- Different from: emergency department[19]
- Carries passengers or cargo: patient[20]
- P14470: Objects/Ambulance[21]
Why It Matters
ambulance has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] ambulance is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]