urgicenter

English

Etymology

From urgent + center. Compare surgicenter, emergicenter.

Noun

urgicenter (plural urgicenters)

  1. (US) A medical facility, not part of a hospital, where emergency treatment can be given.
    • 1986 September 8, New York Magazine, volume 19, number 35, page 36:
      Jonathan and Cathy took their daughter Millie to a West Side urgicenter.
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