INPATIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inpatient mean? 

• INPATIENT (noun)
  The noun INPATIENT has 1 sense:

1. a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

  Familiarity information: INPATIENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INPATIENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

inmate; inpatient

Hypernyms ("inpatient" is a kind of...):

patient (a person who requires medical care)

Antonym:

outpatient (a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated)

 Context examples 

The provision of professional nursing care in an inpatient setting.

(Hospital Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

They found that 9.7% of outpatients had lower free fatty acid levels, indicating they probably did not fast, compared to only 1.6% of inpatients.

(Researchers identify method to verify if children fasted before medical testing, National Institutes of Health)

The number of inpatient hospital days.

(Number of Hospitalization Days, NCI Thesaurus)

A facility that provides medical care that can be safely performed without requiring inpatient hospital care.

(Free-Standing Clinic, NCI Thesaurus)

The physician responsible for the admission of a patient to a hospital or other inpatient health institution.

(Admitting Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

Sleep deprivation - typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings - rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of depression patients, researchers found.

(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Using a whole-room indirect calorimeter – which allows energy expenditure to be calculated based on air samples – researchers took baseline measurements of the participants’ energy expenditure in response to a day of fasting, followed by a six-week inpatient phase of 50 percent calorie reduction.

(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)

A publicly or privately owned institution which is primarily established and licensed for the purpose of providing elective surgical treatment of outpatients whose recovery, under normal and routine circumstances, will not require inpatient care.

(Ambulatory Surgical Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

They compared free fatty acid test results of children who were admitted as inpatients—and whose food intakes were controlled by hospital staff—to those of children who participated as outpatients.

(Researchers identify method to verify if children fasted before medical testing, National Institutes of Health)