Casualty
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Casualty may refer to:
- Casualty (person)Casualty (person)A casualty is a person who is the victim of an accident, injury, or trauma. The word casualties is most often used by the news media to describe deaths and injuries resulting from wars or disasters...
, a person who is killed or injured in a war or disaster - DisasterDisasterA disaster is a natural or man-made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment...
, an event resulting in death, injury, or destruction - The emergency departmentEmergency departmentAn emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...
of a hospital, also known as a Casualty Department or Casualty Ward (chiefly in the UK and Commonwealth nations) - Casualty insuranceCasualty insuranceCasualty insurance, often equated to liability insurance, is used to describe an area of insurance not directly concerned with life insurance, health insurance, or property insurance. It is mainly used to describe the liability coverage of an individual or organization's for negligent acts or...
, a type of insurance - Casualty (TV series)Casualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
, the world's longest-running emergency medical drama series - Casualty 1906, the pilot for a British historical medical drama
- Casualty 1907, a British historical medical drama (for which Casualty 1906 was the pilot)
- Casualty 1909, a continuation of the British historical medical drama (from 1906 and 1907)