day patientnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdeɪ ˌpeɪ.ʃənt/us/ˈdeɪ ˌpeɪ.ʃənt/UKa patient who remains in hospital during the day usually for a minor operation or other treatment
Synonym
outpatient
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Medical treatment: people who receive medical treatment
- admission
- asthmatic
- case
- casualty
- convalescent
- donor
- dying
- epileptic
- geriatric
- injured
- inpatient
- invalid 1
- outpatient
- patient
- PWA
- sick
- sufferer
- under
- victim
- wounded