单词 | ambulatorium |
释义 | ambulatoriumn. A clinic providing outpatient treatment or primary care.Originally used in German contexts, later often in relation to the Soviet Union. The term is not used of such clinics in the English-speaking world. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department ambulatorium1834 emergency room1886 emergency department1889 recovery room1894 accident and emergency1898 outpatients1910 X-ray1916 casualty1927 abortorium1933 out1933 ER1955 A and E1966 emerg1978 1834 Rep. Commissioners Poor Laws: App. (F.) Foreign Communications Pt. 2 544 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 44) XXXIX. 1 It consists of a medical clinicum ambulatorium, a surgical ambulatorium, a fixed surgical clinicum, and a clinical lying-in hospital, with a school for midwives. 1881 Lancet 1 Oct. 585/2 The medical policlinic is divided into the ambulatorium proper and into the so-called district-policlinic, or patients who are treated at their own houses. 1937 H. E. Sigerist Socialised Med. in Soviet Union v. 289 In the Soviet Union medical service is given to the working population through health centres. These centres have various names. They are called dispensaries, polyclinics, ambulatoria, preventoria or prophylactoria. 1984 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Apr. 1289/1 If the situation is unsatisfactory at the ‘ambulatoria’ of area doctors there are also many defects in the polyclinics. 2003 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 33 62 I found an old friend and classmate..who turned out to be one of the two physicians in charge at the Bint Jbeil's ambulatorium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1834 |
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