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ambulatory

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


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Management aims to re-accelerate revenue growth by expanding ambulatory infusion sites and using advanced practitioner models.

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

This Ptolemaic Egypt is an exquisite corpse, a dead polity that is somehow still ambulatory, only waiting for a stake to be put through its heart by the legions of Augustus.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

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

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

The ambulatories now serve as a museum of sculpture.

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

Elsewhere in Belgium are several flat-roofed churches of basilican plan, some with ambulatories in the French style but no apsidal chapels.

From Architecture by Bell, Nancy R E Meugens




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