Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In medicine, triage is a process by which care providers such as medical professionals and those with first aid knowledge determine the order of priority for providing treatment to injured individuals and/or inform the rationing of limited supplies so that they go to those who can most benefit from it. Wikipedia

A process of prioritizing patients based on the severity of their condition so as to treat as many as possible when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately Wikipedia Disambiguation

determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition Wikidata

The process of sorting patients according to urgency of illness or injury, in order to ascertain which order to treat them in. OmegaWiki

The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury). Wiktionary

The process of sorting patients. Wiktionary (translation)