Ambulatory vs Ambulant - What's the difference?
ambulatory | ambulant |
Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
* Sir H. Wotton
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
* Jeremy Taylor
(legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
Able to walk.
Designed for use by somebody with a disability that impairs, but does not prevent, walking.
As adjectives the difference between ambulatory and ambulant
is that ambulatory is of, relating to, or adapted to walking while ambulant is able to walk.As a noun ambulatory
is the round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.ambulatory
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ambulatory exercise
- The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
- an ambulatory patient
- an ambulatory electrocardiogram
- ambulatory medical care
- an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
- The priesthood before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
- The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
Noun
(ambulatories)ambulant
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Adjective
- an ambulant toilet