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inpatient
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun inpatient has 1 sense
- inpatient(n = noun.person) inmate - a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated; Array is a kind of patient
Antonym: outpatient
CIDE DICTIONARY
inpatient, n.
A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
inpatient
addressee, apoplectic, arthritic, artist-in-residence, case, consumptive, denizen, dweller, dyspeptic, epileptic, habitant, house detective, incumbent, incurable, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, intern, invalid, live-in maid, locum tenens, occupant, occupier, outpatient, patient, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, rheumatic, shut-in, sick person, sojourner, spastic, sufferer, tenant, terminal case, the sick, valetudinarian
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