"inpatient" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-inpatient.wav [US] Forms: inpatients [plural]
Etymology: in + patient Etymology templates: {{compound|en|in|patient}} in + patient Head templates: {{en-noun}} inpatient (plural inpatients)
  1. (healthcare) A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient. Categories (topical): Healthcare Synonyms: in-patient Translations (patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital): 住院病人 (zhùyuàn bìngrén) (Chinese Mandarin), sairaalapotilas (Finnish), sisäpotilas (Finnish), patient hospitalier [masculine] (French), stationärer Patient [masculine] (German), εσωτερικός ασθενής (esoterikós asthenís) [masculine] (Greek), fekvőbeteg (Hungarian), bentfekvő (Hungarian), internado [masculine] (Portuguese), стациона́рный больно́й (stacionárnyj bolʹnój) [masculine] (Russian), стациона́рный пацие́нт (stacionárnyj paciént) [masculine] (Russian), stacionarni pacijent [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), hospitalizirani pacijent [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), paciente [masculine] (Spanish), sluten (note: of care) (Swedish), inlagd (alt: admitted to hospital, hospitalized – adjective, can be nominalized) (Swedish), intagen (alt: more often of prison, but also fairly common for (involuntary) psychiatric care and the like – adjective, can be nominalized) (Swedish), ผู้ป่วยใน (Thai)

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