'Out patient' definitions:
Definition of 'Out patient'
From: GCIDE
- Patient \Pa"tient\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. [1913 Webster]
- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. [1913 Webster]
- Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary.
- Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary. [1913 Webster]