1. a wheeled stretcher used for transporting patients in hospitals
Usage: medical

Examples

• The paramedics lifted the patient onto a gurney.
• She was wheeled down the hospital corridor on a gurney.
• The emergency room had several gurneys lined up against the wall.
• Nurses pushed the gurney into the operating room.
• The patient was transferred from the ambulance gurney to a hospital bed.
• Medical staff secured the patient to the gurney with safety straps.