outpatient

/ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃ(ə)nt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

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noun

adj

"An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital."
"MR. MILLER: It is more outpatient than it is inpatient."
"The changes are necessary because "health care is going more outpatient than inpatient," Whitacre said."
"It is outpatient and prepaid."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English patient English outpatient From out- + patient.

outpatients (plural)

ambulatory

inpatient

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How do you pronounce outpatient?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃ(ə)nt/.

What does outpatient mean?

Where does outpatient come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English patient English outpatient From out- + patient.

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