ambulant
Capable of walking
Ambulant means able to walk or walking, used especially in medical contexts to describe patients who aren't bedridden: The ambulant patients were moved to a different ward.
The word appears more commonly in British English; Americans tend to use ambulatory for the same sense.
Treated without admission
- mobileCapable of movement
- recuperatingRegaining health gradually
- convalescentOne recovering from illness
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
crutches · physiotherapy · rehabilitation · discharge · clinic · treatment · recovery · patient
outpatient
Treated without admission
- mobileCapable of movement
- recuperatingRegaining health gradually
- convalescentOne recovering from illness
wheelchair · crutches · physiotherapy · rehabilitation · discharge · clinic · treatment · recovery · patient · self-sufficient
pedestrian
One traveling afoot
tread · footpath · sidewalk · pavement · trek · hike · march · trudge · step · promenade
nomad
Homeless wanderer by choice
vagabond · traveler · migrant · peripatetic · wayfarer · journeying · transient · unsettled · roving · moving
ambulantimmobile
Unable to shift
stationary · motionless · static · fixed · rooted
ambulantbedridden
Unable to leave mattress
bedbound · immobilized · wheelchair-bound · incapacitated · paralyzed
- call an ambulanceRequest urgent medical response
- ambulance chaserUnscrupulous personal injury lawyer
- air ambulanceEmergency medical aircraft
- ambulance serviceEmergency medical transport provider
- ambulance chasingAggressive personal injury solicitation
- ambulance driverEmergency vehicle operator
ambulance, ambulances, ambulatory, ambulate, perambulate, ambulation, perambulation, perambulator, circumambulate