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Ambulatories

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am⋅bu⋅la⋅to⋅ry

  [am-byuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] adjective, noun, plural -ries.
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–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
2. adapted for walking, as the limbs of many animals.
3. moving about or from place to place; not stationary: an ambulatory tribe.
4. Also, ambulant. Medicine/Medical.
a. not confined to bed; able or strong enough to walk: an ambulatory patient.
b. serving patients who are able to walk: an ambulatory care center.
5. Law. not fixed; alterable or revocable: ambulatory will.
–noun
6. Also called deambulatory. Architecture.
a. an aisle surrounding the end of the choir or chancel of a church.
b. the covered walk of a cloister.
Origin:
1615–25; < L ambulātōrius, equiv. to ambulā-, s. of ambulāre (see amble ) + -tōrius tory1

Related forms:
am⋅bu⋅la⋅to⋅ri⋅ly, adverb
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am·bu·la·to·ry   (ām'byə-lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē)   
adj.  

  1. Of, relating to, or adapted for walking.

    1. Capable of walking; not bedridden: an ambulatory patient.

    2. Designed for or available to patients who are not bedridden: ambulatory care; ambulatory pediatrics.

  3. Moving about; itinerant.

  4. Law That can be changed or revoked, as a will during the life of the testator.

n.   pl. am·bu·la·to·ries
A covered place for walking, as in a cloister.
am'bu·la·to'ri·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

ambulatory 
"of or pertaining to walking" (1622); also "shifting, not permanent" (1621), from L. ambulatorius "of or pertaining to a walker," from ambulator, from ambulare (see amble).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: am·bu·la·to·ry
Pronunciation: 'am-by&-l&-"tOr-E
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin ambulatorius, literally, movable, transferable, from ambulare to walk, move, be transferred
: capable of being altered ambulatory until the testator's death>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: am·bu·la·to·ry
Pronunciation: 'am-by&-l&-"tOr-E, -"tor-
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, oradapted to walking <ambulatory exercise>
2 a : able to walk about and not bedridden ambulatory patient> b : performed on or involvingan ambulatory patient or an outpatient ambulatory electrocardiogram> <ambulatory medical care> —am·bu·la·to·ri·ly /"am-by&-l&-'tOr-&-lE, -'tor-/ adverb
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ambulatory am·bu·la·to·ry (ām'byə-lə-tôr'ē)
adj.

  1. Of, relating to, or adapted for walking.

  2. Capable of walking; not bedridden.

  3. Moving about.

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