outpatient (ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃənt) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| Compare inpatient a nonresident hospital patient | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
outpatient out·pa·tient (out'pā'shənt)
n.
A patient who is admitted to a hospital or clinic for treatment that does not require an overnight stay.