Meaning of ambulatory in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.

• Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

adjective

• Of, relating to, or adapted to walking

  Example: ambulatory exercise

• Able to walk about and not bedridden.

  Example: an ambulatory patient

• Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.

  Example: ambulatory medical care

• Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.

  Example: an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places

• Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.

  Example: The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.