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inpatient

noun

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adj

Etymology: By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + patient.

  1. Alternative spelling of impatient.

    ...she told her, That she had an extreme desire to converse with the soul of her Noble Lord and dear Husband, and that she was inpatient of a longer stay.

noun

Etymology: From in- (“internal”) + patient.

  1. A patient whose treatment requires at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.

    For three of the four regions, the number and rate of procedures was higher in inpatient than in ambulatory settings, but in the Midwest the differences between settings were not statistically significant.

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