out-patient

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Out-patient \Out"-pa`tient\, n.
   1. A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical
      aid from it.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A medical patient who receives treatment at a hospital,
      especially in an emergency room, but is not admitted to
      stay overnight. Distinguished from {inpatient}, who is
      assigned to a room to reside there while being treated.
      [PJC]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "outpatient":
      apoplectic, arthritic, case, consumptive, dyspeptic, epileptic,
      incurable, inpatient, invalid, patient, rheumatic, shut-in,
      sick person, spastic, sufferer, terminal case, the sick,
      valetudinarian
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