triage

今日の単語もＲＤ6月号の闘病記からです。
We discovered the cancer by accident one November Sunday in 2000. Our son Terry had invited friends for a sleepover to celebrate his 12th birthday Terence had been having stomach cramps for weeks. Suddenly he was lying on the bed, doubled over in pain. Our family doctor ordered him to the emergency department.
We were immediately triaged through. Not a good sign, I thought. When Terence returned from a scan, the doctor said, almost as an aside: "There's a shadow on his kidney. When hs's feeling better, you should take a look at it."
"triage" は聞き覚えのある言葉ですが、意味を思い出せません。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:
a: the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors
b: the sorting of patients (as in an emergency room) according to the urgency of their need for care: Nurses do triage in the emergency room.
・Collins English Dictionary: .(in a hospital) the principle or practice of sorting emergency patients into categories of priority for treatment: Hopefully any kind of nurse triage system would offer this safe and sensible advice.
辞書の説明は名詞に対してですが、動詞も名詞も同じ "triage" です。
思い出しました。最近日本語にもなってきた用語でカタカナで見た事のある言葉です。