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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