outpatient

paciente ambulatorio

Persona que recibe atención en un hospital o una clínica y vuelve a casa sin pasar allí la noche.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who receives care at a hospital or clinic and goes home without staying overnight.

• She was treated as an outpatient.
• The clinic sees fifty outpatients every day.
• Can I receive this treatment as an outpatient?

Antónimos: inpatient

Expresiones frecuentes: as an outpatient, outpatient clinic, outpatient appointment

ambulatorio

Dicho de cuidados médicos que permiten volver a casa sin pasar la noche en el hospital o la clínica.

En inglés sencillo: Involving hospital or clinic care that lets a patient go home without staying overnight.

• He needs outpatient treatment.
• The hospital offers outpatient surgery for this condition.
• Her outpatient appointment lasted less than an hour.

Sinónimos: ambulatory

Antónimos: inpatient

Expresiones frecuentes: outpatient treatment, outpatient surgery, outpatient care