🇬🇧 Triage meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Triage is what doctors and nurses do in an emergency when many patients arrive at the same time. They very quickly check each person to see who is hurt the worst or is the sickest. The ones who might be in real danger get help first, and the others wait a little longer. Triage helps make sure that doctors use their time and supplies in the best way so that the most people can be helped and saved.

The lifeguard’s triage was easy: help the kid actually drowning, not the one yelling because his sandwich got wet.

During snowball-fight triage, Grandma handed hot cocoa first to the kid who couldn’t feel their fingers, not the one who couldn’t find their snowman’s nose.

In hallway triage, the principal helped the kid stuck in a locker before the one stuck in a very boring conversation.

At the pet clinic, triage meant the dog who ate socks came before the turtle who just looked slightly disappointed with life.

At the pirate clinic, triage meant the pirate missing a tooth went before the pirate missing his favorite eye patch.

After the crash, the nurse set up a triage area under a torn awning. She used triage tags, touched wrists, checked breaths, and pinned colored tapes for triage: red, yellow, green. A child with pale lips got urgent triage, a stoic man wore green triage. By sunset, triage saved them all; she smiled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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