triage
triage Lexical Profile
triage Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The process of assessing the severity of patients' illnesses or injuries to determine the order of priority for medical treatment, especially in an emergency room or disaster area.
"The emergency department nurse performed rapid triage to ensure the most critical patients were seen by doctors first."
The assignment of degrees of urgency to tasks, problems, or resources in order to decide the sequence in which they should be addressed.
"The software engineering team conducted bug triage every Monday morning to resolve the most disruptive issues first."
• verb
To evaluate and categorize patients according to the urgency of their need for medical care.
"Paramedics quickly triaged the survivors at the scene before transporting them to local hospitals."
To sort and prioritize tasks, issues, or requests so that the most critical ones are handled first.
"After returning from vacation, she spent an hour triaging her overflowing inbox."
• Rhymes for triage
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French 'triage' ('a sorting or sifting'), derived from Old French 'trier' ('to pick out, cull'). Originally applied to grading commodities such as wool and coffee beans in the 18th century, it acquired its medical sense on French battlefields during World War I.