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sick call
noun
A daily lineup of military personnel requiring medical attention.
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In this hamlet we held a sick call, passed out soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes, Band-Aids and antibiotic gel.
He found that there was an increase in persons at sick call during the time of the full moon.
Most said they were paying a sick call on Mr. Barbara and had all coincidentally arrived at the same time.
Two days later the narrator went on sick call and Shoemaker, a specialist 4th class who disliked him, was put in charge of the platoon.
If you are sick over here, you get out of bed early in the morning to visit the doctors at sick call.
He was a corpsman in the medical clinic, where he was in charge of sick call, and performed several lifesaving operations.
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A neighbor, who was sick, called the police.
Henman, apparently feeling sick, called for the ATP trainer Bill Norris and took a couple of pills.
Two mass sick calls by postal workers in the Bronx in July 1969, demanding higher wages, had spurred him to action.
He said that he had heard talk of "targeted sick calls, slowdowns and increased maintenance write-ups".
"Upon landing, I have received scores of mostly obscene and sick calls, voicemails and text messages," Pelosi said in her letter to colleagues.
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