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A patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated
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outpatient
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated [ant: inpatient ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also out-patient , 1715, "person who is treated at a hospital but not admitted," from out + patient (n.). The adjective is first recorded 1879.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient. n. A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an outpatient clinic (= for someone who does not need to stay in hospital ) ▪ There's an outpatient clinic for people with diabetes. inpatient/outpatient care (= for people in hospital/not in hospital ) ▪ Outpatient ...
Usage examples of outpatient.
He was up early, for he was operating that morning, and he and his senior registrar would hold outpatients in the late afternoon, but before he left the house he went to the kitchen where he spent ten minutes talking to Mrs.
There were private patients to see at his rooms in the forenoon, and before that a ward round at the hospital as well as an outpatients clinic in the afternoon.
He had laughed with her and agreed with an apparent sincerity which had made it all the harder to bear when she had come across them in a deserted Outpatients Department.
Like I said before, he was supposedly talking to a shrink in the outpatient care unit and in one of those circle jerks.
Alerted by an attack of nausea and vertigo (and such an attack does not now seem to [her] an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968'), Miss Didion enrolled as a private outpatient of the psychiatric clinic at St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, where she underwent the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, the Sentence Completion Test and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index.
Just months before being killed she had been hospitalized at the nearby Kings Park Psychiatric Center, then moved into an outpatient home in Bayshore.