AMBULATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ambulatory mean? 

• AMBULATORY (noun)
  The noun AMBULATORY has 1 sense:

1. a covered walkway (as in a cloister)

  Familiarity information: AMBULATORY used as a noun is very rare.

• AMBULATORY (adjective)
  The adjective AMBULATORY has 2 senses:

1. relating to or adapted for walking

2. able to walk about

  Familiarity information: AMBULATORY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMBULATORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A covered walkway (as in a cloister)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

it has an ambulatory and seven chapels

Hypernyms ("ambulatory" is a kind of...):

paseo; walk; walkway (a path set aside for walking)

• AMBULATORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or adapted for walking

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

an ambulatory corridor

Pertainym:

ambulation (walking about)

Derivation:

ambulation (walking about)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Able to walk about

Synonyms:

ambulant; ambulatory

Context example:

the patient is ambulatory

Similar:

mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))

Derivation:

ambulate (walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking)

 Context examples 

An ambulatory electrocardiography technique that records a continuous electrocardiographic rhythm pattern for 24 hours or more to detect heart arrhythmias.

(Holter Monitoring, NCI Thesaurus)

A score of 0 to 4.5 refers to people with a high degree of ambulatory ability; a score of 5 to 9.5 indicates the loss of ambulatory ability.

(Kurtzke Expanded Disability Status Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Ambulatory and capable of all self care but unable to carry out any work activities.

(ECOG Performance Status 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature, e.g., light house work, office work.

(ECOG Performance Status 1, NCI Thesaurus)

These services are provided in a variety of settings including acute and ambulatory care facilities, community-based facilities, and work-site and school-based programs.

(Cardiac/Vascular Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

Nursing care provided in an ambulatory setting, such as a clinic or physician's office.

(Ambulatory Care Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

An office maintained by a physician for the practice of medicine, or dentistry shall not be construed to be an ambulatory surgical center.

(Ambulatory Surgical Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Results are ranked as steps from 0 to 10, with steps 1 through 4.5 describing MS patients who are fully ambulatory and steps 5 through 9.5 describing increasing impairment to ambulation.

(Expanded Disability Status Scale, NCI Thesaurus)