Outpatient vs. Ambulatory

Outpatientnoun

(healthcare) A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.

Outpatientadjective

(healthcare) Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient.

Outpatientnoun

a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated

Outpatientnoun

a patient who attends a hospital for treatment without staying there overnight

Ambulatoryadjective

Of, relating to, or adapted to walking

Ambulatoryadjective

Able to walk about and not bedridden.

Ambulatoryadjective

(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.

Ambulatoryadjective

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.

Ambulatoryadjective

(legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.

Ambulatorynoun

The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.

Ambulatorynoun

Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

Ambulatoryadjective

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

Ambulatoryadjective

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.

Ambulatoryadjective

Pertaining to a walk.

Ambulatoryadjective

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Ambulatorynoun

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Ambulatoryadjective

able to walk about;

Ambulatory

The ambulatory (Latin: ambulatorium, ‘walking place’) is the covered passage around a cloister or the processional way around the east end of a cathedral or large church and behind the high altar. The first ambulatory was in France in the 11th century but by the 13th century ambulatories had been introduced in England and many English cathedrals were extended to provide an ambulatory.The same feature is often found in Indian architecture and Buddhist architecture generally, especially in older periods.