COW
n.— «Doctors and nurses at Moses Cone Hospital refer to them as COWs—computers on wheels. Basically a wireless laptop on a cart, the computers are helping to save time and paper by letting doctors and nurses update charts and view X-rays and test results from the patient’s bedside.» —“Moses Cone says mobile computers save time, errors” by Kavita Pillai News-Record (Greensboro, North Carolina) July 2, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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