as in outpatient
a person who stays for one or more nights in a hospital for medical treatment
—often used before another noun
inpatient surgery It was inpatient treatment that required a lengthy hospital stay.
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Recent Examples of inpatient
Every inpatient room was built large enough to function as an intensive care unit if needed, effectively creating a 144-bed ICU.
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Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Defense attorney Eric Olson noted his client went to inpatient treatment immediately after he was released on bail.
—Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
Kathleen Lavanchy, who retired in 2024 from a job at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in the Philadelphia area, spent much of her career communicating with health insurance companies on behalf of patients.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Sixteen other states have the same ability to cover inpatient mental health care, and 37 cover inpatient addiction treatment.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
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Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Defense attorney Eric Olson noted his client went to inpatient treatment immediately after he was released on bail.
—Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
Kathleen Lavanchy, who retired in 2024 from a job at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in the Philadelphia area, spent much of her career communicating with health insurance companies on behalf of patients.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Sixteen other states have the same ability to cover inpatient mental health care, and 37 cover inpatient addiction treatment.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inpatient
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Increasingly, though, our ERs have become America’s default outpatient clinics, caring not only for the critically ill and injured, but for patients with pressing, non-life-threatening conditions whose insurers have blocked access elsewhere.—
Dr. Nicholas Cozzi,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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The local health system, Bozeman Health, estimated Buttgereit would have to pay $50,560 out-of-pocket for the outpatient surgery to have her elbow pieced back together.—
Katheryn Houghton,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Seeking a faster, more affordable option, researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea are developing a technique that can create patient-specific bone implants without the high costs or delays of traditional methods.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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The company says that about 30% of the 1,000 patients treated in this initial phase reported feeling more confident about navigating menopause after one visit and 75% began hormone therapy treatments.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Inpatient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inpatient. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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