Ambulatory

What do we mean by ambulatory?

Of, relating to, or adapted for walking. adjective

Capable of walking; not bedridden. adjective

Designed for or available to patients who are not bedridden. adjective

Moving about; itinerant. adjective

Relating to that which can be changed or revoked, as a will during the life of the testator. adjective

A covered place for walking, as in a cloister. noun

Having the power or faculty of walking; formed or adapted for walking: as, an ambulatory animal.

Pertaining to a walk; happening or obtained during a walk.

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary: as, an ambulatory court.

In law, not fixed; capable of being altered: as, a will is ambulatory until the death of the testator; the return of a sheriff is ambulatory until it is filed.

In medicine:

Shifting; ambulant: applied to certain morbid affections when they skip or shift from one place to another.

Permitting the patient to be about: applied to typhoid fever when it does not compel the patient to take to his bed.

Any part of a building intended for walking, as the aisles of a church, particularly those surrounding the choir and apse, or the cloisters of a monastery; any portico or corridor. noun

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. noun

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking. adjective

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable. adjective

Pertaining to a walk. adjective

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable. adjective

The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.

Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

An oblique reference to one or more attractive individuals. A socially acceptable way of publicly referring to hotties. Urban Dictionary

When a camera has limited zoom functionality one can walk closer to the target to obtain the required zoom effect. Urban Dictionary

Unable to strip off. Urban Dictionary

Not able to walk with or without assistance. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to ambulatory:
ambulatory, ambulator, adulatory, ambulatorily, deambulatory, emulatory, ambulatorio.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ambulatory:
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Words that rhyme with ambulatory:
story, allegory, aleatory, inventory, glory, desultory, mandatory, quarry, derogatory, category, repository, territory, laboratory, statutory, dilatory, signatory, dory, storey, purgatory, hoary, conciliatory, lorry, oratory, exculpatory, dormitory, recore, obligatory, mori, transitory, lavatory, respiratory, tory, depilatory, inflammatory, regulatory, gory, predatory, auditory, tori, kauri, repertory, laudatory, observatory, preparatory, lory, defamatory, revelatory, explanatory, depository, morey, celebratory, cory, torii, pylori, montessori, discriminatory, accusatory, compensatory, exploratory, memento mori, ori, understory, circulatory, promissory, aurae, interrogatory, migratory, incantatory, participatory, corrie, corey, reformatory, cacciatore, lori, boree, tempore, rory, confirmatory, contributory, anticipatory, congratulatory, horae, saury, aurei, torrey, oscillatory, retaliatory, ory, laurie, declaratory, maury, gorey, inhibitory, lorrie, tauri, jory, life story, excretory, articulatory, outlawry.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ambulatory:
double, inner, outer, continuous, south, north, single, open, eastern, upper, octagonal, wide, narrow, simple, vaulted, circular, average, western, northern, spacious, fine, southern, east, external, semicircular, low, west, arcaded, self, rectangular, based, stark, internal, curved, ancillary, non, patient, gothic, shaped, broad, columned, outside, dark, arched.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ambulatory:
patients, care, dialysis, monitoring, surgery, setting, services, patient, settings, pressure, basis, treatment, centers, legs, center, facilities, visits, clinic, clinics, facility, electrocardiography, cases, feet, status, recordings, population, practice, unit, procedures, recording, anesthesia, limbs, aids, ecg, chapels, children, program, programs, medicine, therapy, service, subjects, pressures, management, procedure, monitor, devices, pediatrics, units, residents, measurements, leg, ability, appendages, persons, phlebectomy, automatism, hypertension, survey, schizophrenia, clients, device, schizophrenics, pump, measurement, electrocardiogram, aid, monitors, individuals, nursing, ischemia, schizophrenic, sites, eeg, assessment, abusers, adults, manometry, sector, physicians, nurses.

Words that sound like ambulatory:
ambulatory, perambulatory, ambulator, copulatory, ambulate, ambulating, umbrella tree, ambulated, obligatory, suppletory.