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ambulatory

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


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A major opportunity for the company is to expand its ambulatory infusion sites network that allows it to serve more patients with fewer clinical resources compared with its traditional home visits.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

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 Western Trust said many patients can be treated in its ambulatory surgical patient unit the same day or the next day, with about 2.5 patients being transferred to Derry a day for surgery.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

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

Ishmael watched a half-dozen navy corpsmen busily packing medical field kits and stacking ambulatory litters.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

They were entered from either side through the open ambulatories which as we have seen were free to all.

From Rome by Hope Malleson

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




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