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means A wheeled stretcher used to move patients through hospitals, especially to and from surgery or the ER.

from The word's roots are genuinely murky — one often-repeated story credits a 19th-century American inventor named Gurney with a patent for a wheeled cot, but solid documentation for this is thin and the tale has the smell of folk etymology. It may be related to the British surname Gurney, which itself derives from a Norman place name, but no confirmed link to a specific inventor has been nailed down. Dictionaries generally just list it as of uncertain, possibly proper-name, origin — a rare case where the trail goes cold.