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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
in + patient
Pronunciation
Noun
inpatient (plural inpatients)
- (healthcare) A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.
1998, Maria Owings, Lola Jean Kozak, Ambulatory and Inpatient Procedures in the United States, 1996, Issue 139: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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Translations
patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 住院病人 (zhùyuàn bìngrén)
- Finnish: sairaalapotilas, sisäpotilas
- French: patient hospitalier m
- German: stationärer Patient m
- Greek: εσωτερικός ασθενής m (esoterikós asthenís)
- Hungarian: fekvőbeteg, bentfekvő
- Portuguese: internado (pt) m
- Russian: стациона́рный больно́й m (stacionárnyj bolʹnój), стациона́рный пацие́нт m (stacionárnyj paciént)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: stacionarni pacijent m, hospitalizirani pacijent m
- Spanish: paciente (es) m
- Swedish: sluten (sv) (of care), inlagd (sv) (admitted to hospital, hospitalized – adjective, can be nominalized), intagen (sv) (more often of prison, but also fairly common for (involuntary) psychiatric care and the like – adjective, can be nominalized)
- Thai: ผู้ป่วยใน
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