Emergency Aeromedical Service Emergency Aeromedical Service The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) is a helicopter medical evacuation and air ambulance service based in Athlone, Ireland. Operated since 2012 by the Air Corps and National Ambulance Service under the call sign MEDEVAC 112, the service was redesignated AIR CORPS 112 in 2016. It is a joint project of the Irish government Departments of Defence and Health, and provides an advanced-paramedic response to patients whose location or clinical condition requires aeromedical support. The service was launched on an initial 12-month trial basis on 4 June 2012, operating initially on a Eurocopter EC135 aircraft and later on
Pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology, confusing the Latin "granatus" with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic. Garnet derives from Old French "grenat" by metathesis, from Medieval Latin "granatum" as used in a different meaning "of a dark red color". This derivation may have originated from "pomum granatum", describing the color of pomegranate pulp, or from "granum", referring to "red dye, cochineal". The French term for pomegranate, "grenade", has given its name to the military grenade. A shrub