triage
noun
[ ˈtriːɑːʒ ]
• (in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.
• "a triage nurse"
triage
verb
• decide the order of treatment of (patients or casualties).
• "victims were triaged by paramedics before being transported to hospitals"
Origin:
early 18th century (in the sense ‘the action of sorting items according to quality’): from French, from trier ‘separate out’. The current sense dates from the 1930s, from the military system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield.
