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outpatient

noun
/ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃ(ə)nt/

Etymology

From out- + patient.

  1. derived from *peh₁-✻ — “to hate, hurt”
  2. derived from patiens
  3. derived from pacient
  4. derived from patient
  5. inherited from pacient
  6. prefixed as outpatient — “out + patient”

Definitions

  1. A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight

    A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.

    • An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital.

  2. Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient.

    • MR. MILLER: It is more outpatient than it is inpatient.
    • The changes are necessary because "health care is going more outpatient than inpatient," Whitacre said.
    • It is outpatient and prepaid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at outpatient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01outpatient02hospital03residents04resident05clinic06outpatients

A definitional loop anchored at outpatient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at outpatient

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA