ambulatory
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/, /-bjʊ-/
Audio (US) (file) - (UK) IPA(key): /ˌæm.bjəˈleɪ.tɹi/
- Hyphenation: am‧bu‧la‧to‧ry
Adjective[edit]
ambulatory (comparative more ambulatory, superlative most ambulatory)
- Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
- ambulatory exercise
- 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:
- The princess of whom his majesty […] had an ambulatory view in his travels.
- (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
- an ambulatory patient
- (medicine) Performed on or involving an outpatient.
- an ambulatory electrocardiogram
- ambulatory medical care
- 2007 June 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba brought science, not scapegoating, to AIDS care”, in Workers World[1]:
- Those who left the sanatoria received ambulatory care that included regular doctor's care, visits to specialists and dietary supplements.
- (medicine) Relating to ambulances.
- ambulatory fleet
- Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
- an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
- 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section VI”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 1, page 35:
- As ſoon as God began to conſtitute a Church and fix the Prieſthood, which before was very ambulatory, and diſpenſed into all families, but ever officiated by the Major domo, God gives the power and deſigns the perſon.
- (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
- The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
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Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
of, relating to, or adapted to walking
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performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient
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See also[edit]
Noun[edit]
ambulatory (plural ambulatories)
- The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
- Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
Translations[edit]
round walkway encircling the altar
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