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AMBULATORY INPATIENT [1 record]

Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
OBS

Inpatient: a patient in a hospital or infirmary who receives lodging and food as well as treatment - distinguished from outpatient.

OBS

Ambulatory: able to walk about: not bedfast (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
OBS

Hospitaliser: Au p.p. Malades hospitalisés, et subst. Les hospitalisés.

OBS

Malade sur pied: (...) l'expression consacrée par l'usage français pour désigner un malade qui n'a pas à rester au lit est malade sur pied.

Spanish

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