ambulance
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An ambulance is a vehicle equipped to care for and transport sick or injured people.
ambulance
A vehicle used to transport patients and provide medical care, especially in emergencies.
Learning notes
Explanation
This is the standard word for an ambulance in everyday conversation, news reports, and medical settings. It combines รถ, “vehicle,” with พยาบาล, “to nurse or care for.” Use the classifier คัน when counting: รถพยาบาลหนึ่งคัน means “one ambulance,” and รถพยาบาลคันนี้ means “this ambulance.”
Usage
Use it when calling an ambulance for an illness or injury, waiting for one to arrive, discussing patient transport, or making way for an ambulance in traffic.
Caution
The word does not imply that the ambulance is responding to an emergency; it also covers ambulances transferring patients between hospitals. รถโรงพยาบาล means a hospital vehicle and does not necessarily refer to an ambulance.