MedEvac

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(medə vak′)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
med•e•vac  (medə vak′),USA pronunciation n., v., -vacked, -vack•ing. 
n. 
  1. a helicopter for evacuating the wounded from a battlefield.
  2. Medicinean ambulance or other vehicle equipped for emergency transport of medical patients.
  3. any of the trained personnel transporting or otherwise tending to the sick or wounded in a medevac.

v.t. 
  1. to transport (sick or wounded persons) by medevac.
Also, Mede•vac′, medivac. 
  • 1965–70, American; med(ical) evac(uation); presumably by ellipsis from medevac helicopter

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