http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishGrammarQuestions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.enCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmpr/post.htm#514675Sat, 17 May 2008 03:01:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514675khoff0http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmpr/post.htm#514675http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514675.xmlNo, (unfortunately, in my opinion,) the medical community actually uses &quot;emergent&quot; as a synonym, or near-synonym, for &quot;urgent.&quot;&nbsp; In fact, in my dictionary I see that &quot;urgent&quot; is given as the fifth definition of &quot;emergent.&quot;&nbsp; Apparently my idea that &quot;emergent&quot; was more of an emergency than &quot;urgent&quot; is not necessarily true -- google &quot;urgent/emergent&quot; and you will see that lots of medical-related documents use the combination &quot;urgent/emergent&quot; as the alternative to &quot;non-urgent.&quot;</p> <p>Ugh.&nbsp; What was wrong with &quot;emergency&quot; used as an adjective?&nbsp; To&nbsp; me, &quot;emergent&quot; suggests something that is just beginning, rather than something that has already reached crisis level.&nbsp;<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmnj/post.htm#514650Sat, 17 May 2008 01:28:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514650Grammar Geek1http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmnj/post.htm#514650http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514650.xml<p>Don&#39;t you think it was just&nbsp;a typo for emergency?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmnz/post.htm#514646Sat, 17 May 2008 01:18:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514646khoff2http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmnz/post.htm#514646http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514646.xmlI don&#39;t know if the use of <em>emergent </em>meaning &quot;having the nature of an emergency&quot; (as opposed to &quot;just beginning to emerge or appear&quot;) is new or not, but I was totally unaware of it until a few years ago when&nbsp;I heard it from a doctor.&nbsp; I believe that to a doctor, &quot;emergent&quot; is more serious than &quot;urgent.&quot;&nbsp; An urgent problem can be treated tomorrow, but an emergent situation needs to be treated immediately.&nbsp; (I&#39;m obviously not a doctor, so this might not be corrrect, but this is my understanding.)&nbsp; I would add that not everyone outside the medical field is familiar with this usage of &quot;emergent&quot;; most people would just say &quot;an emergency operation.&quot;&nbsp; In fact, I&#39;m not sure if &quot;emergent&quot; can be applied to the operation at all -- I know a problem can be described as &quot;emergent,&quot; but I&#39;m not sure if the treatment would also be described that way.&nbsp; </p> <p>Boy, I was sure a lot of help, wasn&#39;t I?? <img src="http://www.englishforums.com/emoticons/emotion-42.gif" alt="Thinking" title="Thinking" /></p> <p>Is there anyone in the medical field who can clarify this?<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmnc/post.htmSat, 17 May 2008 01:02:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:514643Angliholic3http://www.englishforums.com/English/UrgentEmergentOperation/gcmnc/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-514643.xml<p>Were it not for the doctor&#39;s urgent/emergent operaiton, the baby couldn&#39;t survive.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Hi,</p> <p>Do both urgent and emergent fit in the above and mean about the same to you? Thanks.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>