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OUTPATIENTS

"OUTPATIENTS" is a plural of: outpatient.

Date "OUTPATIENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)


Specialty Definition: OUTPATIENTS

DomainDefinition

Health

Persons who receive ambulatory care at an outpatient department or clinic without room and board being provided. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: OUTPATIENTS

Specialty definitions using "OUTPATIENTS": OUTPATIENT-ADMITTING CLERK. (references)

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Commercial Usage: OUTPATIENTS

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Non-Fiction Usage: OUTPATIENTS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Financial coverage is reserved for outpatients and pays up to $750 per patient per year of costs not covered by other sources. (references)

The dietitian should also design dietary prescriptions for energy, fat and carbohydrate, fluid, sodium, and phosphate, as well as other micronutrients, recognizing that the adequacy of energy intake will be largely monitored by weight change in outpatients. (references)

In a study among 307 middle-aged and elderly psychiatric outpatients (a third of whom had AD dementia with psychosis or severe agitation that was being treated with relatively low doses of medications), scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the VA San Diego Healthcare System (Jeste et al., 1999a) found that 22 to 37 percent developed tardive dyskinesia. (references)

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Usage Frequency: OUTPATIENTS

"OUTPATIENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OUTPATIENTS" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%8136,835

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: OUTPATIENTS

Expression using "OUTPATIENTS": clinic for outpatients. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OUTPATIENTS

Language Translations for "OUTPATIENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

poliklinik (clinic for outpatients, outpatient department, outpatients' department, polyclinic). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

外来患者 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がいらいか"じゃ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outpatientsay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bolesnici na vanbolničkom lečenju. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OUTPATIENTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-s-t-t-t-u"

-1 letter: outpatient.

-2 letters: outpaints.

-3 letters: nattiest, nepotist, nuttiest, opuntias, outpaint, outspent, outstate, pantsuit, patients, petunias, pottiest, poutiest, saponite, supinate, titanous, utopians.

-4 letters: antipot, atonies, atopies, attunes, aunties, epinaos, etatist, instate, notates, nutates, opiates, opuntia, outeats, outspan, panties, patents, patient, patines, pattens, patties, peanuts, petunia, pintoes, piteous, pointes, potties, puniest, punties, putties, sapient, satinet, senopia, sinuate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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