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ambulatory

[am-byuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈæm bjə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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Singapore market should stabilize by 2H, supported by the ramp-up of ambulatory care centers, medical tourism growth, and the expansion of Mount Elizabeth hospital, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The company is set to receive a roughly 50% reimbursement increase for its Inspire V implant at hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.

From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025

Clinics must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 15 miles and comply with state licensure rules and the rules governing ambulatory surgical centers.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025

Among the possible scenarios being discussed by staff was to bring in the Army during December and January for additional support on the wards and in ambulatory care.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025

In the view of Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, the source of contagion was very likely not De Soto’s army but its ambulatory meat locker: his three hundred pigs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

They created ambulatories, zones of walking, like the one McLaughlin has made between the ring of columns and the outer wall.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013

The star-flooded nights, the dew-soaked dawns, the hushed ambulatories, the enforced asceticism—never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

And the ghostly procession thrice tracks the four ambulatories of the cloisters, solemnly chanting a requiem for the dead.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

This Collishaw, it seems, was at work somewhere up in the galleries, ambulatories, or whatever they call those upper regions, on the very morning of the affair.

From The Paradise Mystery by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

The ambulatories now serve as a museum of sculpture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various




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