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am·bu·lant

(ăm′byə-lənt)

adj.

Moving or walking about.

[French, from Latin ambulāns, ambulant-, present participle of ambulāre, to walk; see ambulance.]

ambulant

(ˈæmbjʊlənt)

adj

1. moving about from place to place

2. (Medicine) med another word for ambulatory³

am•bu•la•to•ry

(ˈæm byə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i)

adj., n., pl. -ries. adj.

1. of, pertaining to, or capable of walking.

2. moving about or from place to place; not stationary.

3. Also, ambulant.

a. not confined to bed; able or strong enough to walk.

b. serving patients who are able to walk.

4. Law. not fixed; alterable or revocable: an ambulatory will.

5. an aisle surrounding the end of the choir or chancel of a church.

6. the covered walk of a cloister.

[1615–25; < Latin]

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Adj.

ambulant - able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory"

ambulatory

mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"

Translations

ambulatorio

ambulant

, ambulatory (US)

adj patient → gehfähig

am·bu·la·to·ry

, ambulant

a. ambulatorio-a; ambulante.

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