out-patient

out-patient
n.
a patient who receives treatment at a hospital, either at a single attendance or at a series of attendances, but is not admitted to a bed in a hospital ward. Large hospitals have clinic at which out-patients with various complaints can be given specialist treatment. Compare in-patient.

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