ambulatory

Meanings

Plural: ambulatories

Noun

• a covered walkway (as in a cloister)
  • "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
• The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
• Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

Adjective

• relating to or adapted for walking
  • "an ambulatory corridor"

Adjective Satellite

• able to walk about
  • "the patient is ambulatory"

Adj

• Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
• Able to walk about and not bedridden.
• Performed on or involving an outpatient.
• Relating to ambulances.
• Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
• Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.

Synonyms

ambulant, ambulatory, animate, astir, kinetic, mobile, motile, motive, movable, up and about, vagile

Related Words

ambulate, ambulator, out of bed

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