Definition of "first aid" [first aid]

• Emergency treatment administered to an injured or sick person before professional medical care is available. (noun)

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• "And the First Aid, Health Care, and Medical Care course covers health care and medical concerns, first aid for dogs, and what to have in a first aid kit for dogs and kennels."
• "The curriculum includes plant identification, wildcrafting, organic herb cultivation, herbal preparations and formulas, herbal first aid and medicine, and creating an herb business."
• "It occurred to him that Lottie could aid him, for she had doubtless done her share of pool-table first aid and backroom midwifery in a checkered career that spanned the Natchez riverboats and San Francisco's Barbary Coast."