ambulatory
IPA: ˈæmbjʌɫʌtɔri
noun
- The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
- Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
- (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
- (medicine) Performed on or involving an outpatient.
- (medicine) Relating to ambulances.
- Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
- (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
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Examples of "ambulatory" in Sentences
- He devised the phrase ambulatory psychosis.
- Ambulatory patients eat in the main dining room.
- I wish there was a better picture of the ambulatory.
- The apsidal chancel is enclosed by a narrow ambulatory.
- Paramedic and ambulatory services are funded by the city.
- The health center provides ambulatory and preventive health services.
- Near the center of the ambulatory, there are a number of biblical scenes.
- Only ambulatory care is offered at the Haaksbergen and Losser facilities.
- A brace for thorax fractures permitting ambulatory movement of the patient.
- A body of literature supports the value of patient teaching in ambulatory care.
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