Definition of "gurney"

Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.

2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 22

I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

2005, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Number 506: The Talk, Part 7