Medkit is
slang from
medical kit. It is a small
container (most of the time metal 1'6" wide, 1' long, and about 3" deep) that houses basic medical
tools for easy transport. These are much like a
heavy duty first aid kit carried by people that know what they are doing more so than a typical person that would carry a standard first aid kit. A
paramedic's kit would be a fine example of such a medkit.
While a first aid kit would have limited supplies such as
bandages, mild
pain killers, and
thermometer; a medkit would also have items like a small
flashlight,
scalpel,
forceps,
sutures, and other tools that could be transported to do medical
field work. Although it is made for easy transport, it is not always used as a mobile unit.
In
video games, medkits restore
health or
hit points to a
player. These medkits tend to be found on the ground and must be picked up to be used as in
Halo, but in certain games, like
Team Fortress, the medkit is carried by a
medic to restore health to players by that medic.
*NOTE* In certain places and in certain
operations medkits are called
go kits, but a go kit is not always a medical kit.