Ambulatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or adapted for walking.
  • adj. Capable of walking; not bedridden: an ambulatory patient.
  • adj. Designed for or available to patients who are not bedridden: ambulatory care; ambulatory pediatrics.
  • adj. Moving about; itinerant.
  • adj. Law That can be changed or revoked, as a will during the life of the testator.
  • n. A covered place for walking, as in a cloister.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
  • adj. Able to walk about and not bedridden.
  • adj. Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
  • n. The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking.
  • adj. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
  • adj. Pertaining to a walk.
  • adj. Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable.
  • n. A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the power or faculty of walking; formed or adapted for walking: as, an ambulatory animal.
  • Pertaining to a walk; happening or obtained during a walk.
  • Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary: as, an ambulatory court.
  • In law, not fixed; capable of being altered: as, a will is ambulatory until the death of the testator; the return of a sheriff is ambulatory until it is filed.
  • In medicine:
  • Shifting; ambulant: applied to certain morbid affections when they skip or shift from one place to another.
  • Permitting the patient to be about: applied to typhoid fever when it does not compel the patient to take to his bed.
  • n. Any part of a building intended for walking, as the aisles of a church, particularly those surrounding the choir and apse, or the cloisters of a monastery; any portico or corridor.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relating to or adapted for walking
  • adj. able to walk about
  • n. a covered walkway (as in a cloister)
  • Equivalent
    mobile   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    paseo    walkway    walk   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    movable    alterable   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts