Word Meanings - OUT-PATIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.

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• MEDICALLY
  In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• HOSPITAL
  hospitale , from L. hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, fr. hospes guest. See Host a landlord, and cf. Hostel, Hotel, 1. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. Spenser. 2. A building in which the
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• HOSPITALITY
  The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds
• HOSPITALER
  1. One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers. 2. One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after
• HOSPITALISM
  A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
• MEDICAL
  fr. mederi to heal; cf. Zend madha medical science, wisdom, gr. mind: 1. Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical
• HOSPITALIZE
  To render unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
• OUTSIDE
  1. The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South.
• PATIENT
  1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell. 2. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• INHOSPITALITY
  The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.
• IMPATIENT
  1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent,
• IMPATIENTLY
  In an impatient manner.
• UNPATIENT
  Impatient. Wyclif.
• LOCK HOSPITAL
  . A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
• INPATIENT
  A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.