outpatient
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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