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Ambulatory vs Locomotion - What's the difference?

ambulatory | locomotion |

As nouns the difference between ambulatory and locomotion

is that ambulatory is the round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals while locomotion is the ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.

As an adjective ambulatory

is of, relating to, or adapted to walking.

ambulatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
    • ambulatory exercise
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
  • (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
    • an ambulatory patient
  • (medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
    • an ambulatory electrocardiogram
    ambulatory medical care
  • Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
    • an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The priesthood before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
  • (legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
    • The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

    Noun

    (ambulatories)
  • The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.

    • locomotion

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
  • (biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.

    • Derived terms

    * locomotive * locomotor ----