Outpatient

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outpatient
       n : a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is
           being treated [ant: {inpatient}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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