a person whose job is to help people who are sick or injured, but who is not a doctor or a nurse Paramedics treated the injured at the roadside.
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NAmE//ˌpærəˈmɛdɪkl//
adjective paramedical staffSee paramedic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: paramedic