medevac / shunt

Reader's　Digest 12月/1月合併号の記事 "Don't Go into the VOLCANO" からの引用です。

Clay spent a painful week recuperating in a St. Kitts hospital before being medevaced to a hospital in Florida, where doctors placed a shunt in his spinal cord to drain excess fluid.

"medevaced" は昨年、"shunt" は10年前に取り上げた単語です。