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語源

wee + evacuate + 6. Because the device is designed to evacuate as many as six wee babies.

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• WEEVAC-6

名詞

Weevac 6 (複数形 Weevac 6s)

1. (emergency medicine) A specialty stretcher used for the rescue of neonates
   • 1989, Health Care, Volume 89

     Stretcher for infants The Weevac 6 evacuation stretcher has three velcro-strapped pockets and can hold up to six infants, depending on their size.

   • 1995, Beckett, Peter, Czerneda, Bullard, Science Probe 9

     In 1989 she invented the Weevac 6, a rescue stretcher that can transport six infants at a time, for the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

   • 2003, Bev Spencer, Made in Canada

     That's how WEEVAC-6, the six-infant emergency evacuation stretcher, was first produced.

   • 2007, Sandra Braun, Incredible Women Inventors, page 92

     In 1989, she got her first patent for the stretcher, which she called the WEEVAC 6.

   Before the invention of the Weevac-6 infants were at a distinct disadvantage for C-spine precautions.