Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A patient who is admitted to a hospital or clinic for treatment that requires at least one overnight stay.
  • adjective Of or relating to inpatients or their care.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A patient who is lodged and fed as well as treated in a hospital or infirmary. See out-patient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

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Examples

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  • After threats to run away, he cooperated with his admission to an adolescent long-term inpatient unit.

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  • The pain is moving up her leg, so Connors is considering a long-term inpatient program: one to three months of hospitalization.

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