outpatient
noun
a patient who receives treatment at a hospital, as in an emergency room or clinic, but is not hospitalized.
out-patient
-
a variation of
outpatient.
Example Sentences
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Chief medical officer Paul Grundy said the hospital would have to "massively curtail" both in and out-patient activity in the coming days.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Investigators were on his trail for years and had discovered evidence that he was receiving chemotherapy as an out-patient at a Palermo clinic under an alias.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
A podiatrist, Dr. Myron Hall, cleaned out the wound and bandaged it, and told her to visit him at the out-patient clinic periodically to check on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
Glenn de Brueys bought four days of benefactor tickets, and as a 72-year-old man who works in healthcare—he builds and manages out-patient surgical centers in New Jersey—he was particularly incensed at the cancelation.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 12, 2020
Jo had learned Serbian and was assisting Dr. Helen Boyle, the Brighton mind specialist, to run a large and flourishing out-patient department to which tuberculosis and diphtheria—two scourges of Serbia—came in their shoals.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
