Evacuation

Evacuation may refer to:

• Emergency evacuation, the mass movement of persons from a dangerous place due to a disaster
• Casualty movement, the procedure for moving a casualty from its initial location to an ambulance
• Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), patient evacuation in combat situations
• Medical evacuation (MEDEVAC), evacuating a patient by plane or helicopter
• Evacuation (TV series), a children's show in the UK
• Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
• Evacuation of East Prussia after World War II
• "Evacuation" (song), a song by Pearl Jam

Evacuation may also refer to:

• Forced migration, a coerced and often violent movement of persons away from their home region
• Defecation and or urination, especially involuntarily after death.
• the physical process of creating a vacuum
• Evacuate the Dancefloor, a 2009 single by German dance act Cascada from the album of the same name

Noun

evacuation (plural evacuations)

1. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
2. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
3. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
4. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
5. Abolition; nullification.

• evac
• med-evac
• noncombatant evacuation operations
• tactical aeromedical evacuation

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