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ˈout-ˌpatient
[out- 2.]
a. A patient who receives treatment at a hospital without being an inmate; opposed to in-patient: see in adv. 12 a.
1715Nelson Addr. Pers. Qual. 208 Above a hundred Persons under Cure, besides the Out-Patients, who are provided with Physick. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 488 Out-patients continue to be received every Sunday and Wednesday morning.
attrib.1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 59 A fortnight's..out-patient treatment. 1880Beale Slight Ailm. 23 In the out-patient department of the hospital.
b. pl. The out-patient department of a hospital.
1910Practitioner July 87 After death..she was recognised as the woman who had previously attended at out-patients. 1968‘L. Black’ Outbreak i. 8 There's a smallpox suspect in the Outpatients at St. Swithin's. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn v. 47 A visit to out-patients at the hospital. |