"outpatient" meaning in English

See outpatient in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: out- + patient Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|patient}} out- + patient Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} outpatient (not comparable)
  1. (healthcare) Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Healthcare Synonyms: ambulatory Translations (provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient): амбулато́рны (ambulatórny) (Belarusian), ambulantní (Czech), ambulatoire [feminine, masculine] (French), ambulant (German), ambulatoryjny (Polish), амбулато́рный (ambulatórnyj) (Russian), амбулато́рний (ambulatórnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-outpatient-en-adj-lFJN0aYQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with out- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with out-: 52 48 Topics: government, healthcare

Noun

Forms: outpatients [plural]
Etymology: out- + patient Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|patient}} out- + patient Head templates: {{en-noun}} outpatient (plural outpatients)
  1. (healthcare) A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care. Categories (topical): Healthcare Translations (patient): 門診病人 (Chinese Mandarin), 门诊病人 (ménzhěn bìngrén) (Chinese Mandarin), poliklinische patiënt (Dutch), poliklinikkapotilas (Finnish), avohoidon potilas (Finnish), avohoitopotilas (Finnish), patient ambulatoire [masculine] (French), ambulanter Patient [masculine] (German), εξωτερικός ασθενής (exoterikós asthenís) [masculine] (Greek), járóbeteg (Hungarian), ambuláns beteg (Hungarian), pasien rawat jalan (Indonesian), pesakit luar (Malay), paciente ambulatorial [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), амбулато́рный больно́й (ambulatórnyj bolʹnój) [masculine] (Russian), амбулато́рный пацие́нт (ambulatórnyj paciént) [masculine] (Russian), амбулантни пацијент [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ambulantni pacijent [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), paciente ambulatorio [masculine] (Spanish), paciente ambulatoria [feminine] (Spanish), ผู้ป่วยนอก (Thai)
    Sense id: en-outpatient-en-noun-zT3Nf6sb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with out- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with out-: 52 48 Topics: government, healthcare

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  ],
  "word": "outpatient"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.