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

  • The entrance to the ambulatory from the Northern aisle:
  • Lower extremity neuromotor function and short-term ambulatory potential following in utero myelomeningocele surgery.
  • Today, Children's Hospital also has five family resource centers in ambulatory care locations throughout our network.
  • The inspection sweep of the nine clinics didn't include other centers that perform more services than first-trimester abortions and are classified as ambulatory surgery centers.
  • At the apex of the ambulatory is the splendid late Gothic (15th c.) tabernacle (such larger medieval tabernacles, seperate from an altar, are called in German Sakramentshaus, "Sacrament House"):
  • If your doctor thinks this might be happening, he or she can ask you to monitor your blood pressure at home, or by using a machine called an ambulatory blood pressure monitor, which can take sample readings over a one-day period.
  • Just like a portable Holter monitor, this new ECG necklace is meant to provide long term ambulatory readings to get a full picture of a patient's cardiac electrophysiological health, all while running on a set of batteries for up to seven days.
  • IMEC recently showed off its prototype cardiac monitoring system that is shaped after an ECG necklace, targeting use as a device that offers long term ambulatory readings in order to obtain a clearer and more accurate picture of a patient's cardiac electrophysiological health.

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