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outpatient

 noun
     
Related topics: Hospital, Illness and Disability
out‧pa‧tient [countable]
MH someone who goes to a hospital for treatment but does not stay for the night [↪ inpatient]:
an outpatient clinic
a routine examination in outpatients (=the outpatient department of a hospital)
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