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Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
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Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
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Pertaining to a walk.
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A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
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Walkway or hallway behind the apse. At First Lutheran, the hallway between the choir room and the vestry.
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Involving locomotion; able to walk.
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Walkway, aisle round apse usually at east end of church.
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referring to patients who are able to walk to appointments etc.
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a covered passage behind the altar, linking it with chapels at the east end of the church.
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A semicircular or polygonal aisle.  Usually an ambulatory leads around the east end of the choir; separating the choir from apses or chapels. See also aisle, apse, choir, east end, hemicycle
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A patient able to walk.
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The ability to walk; "He was ambulatory", i.e. he was able to walk.
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The ability to walk freely & independently, not bedridden or hospitalised.
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Of or relating to patients who are able to walk and are not bedridden. As in ambulatory facility meaning an outpatient facility.
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A covered walkway, outdoors (as in a cloister) or indoors: especailly the passwage around the apse and the choir (quire) of a church.
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Curved or polygonal aisle usually leading round the sanctuary
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Describes ability to ambulate, walk around, not bedridden or hospitalized.
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Aisle round an apse.
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a covered passage around a church's apse
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a curving corridor outside the altar and choir area, separating it from the ring of smaller chapels radiating off the chancel and apse
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a semi-circular or polygonal aisle enclosing an apse or a straight ended sanctuary
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Anthemion Apse
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Ability of someone to walk or move freely
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Passageways surrounding the central part of the choir, which is often a continuation of the side aisles (fig.1,5). The most common design of the Gothic era was the double ambulatory surrounded by semi-circular radiating chapels such as at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis.
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Treatment given in an outpatient setting. Treatment continues while the patient is able to resume many of their normal activities.
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The ability to walk without assistance.
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Passageway located behind the altar area
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a roofed passageway, enclosing the apse, and linking the aisles which flank the nave.
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Refers to tests performed when a person is walking around or going about their normal activities.
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A place for walking, usually covered, as in an Arcade around a Cloister, or a semicircular passageway around the Apse behind the main altar. In a church or mosque with a centralized Plan, the passageway around the central space that corresponds to a Side Aisle and that is used for ceremonial processions.
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Pertaining to a walking habit, as in bears and raccoons.
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Able to walk; movable.
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the term usually applied to the space behind the altar, when there is room for people to walk around
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The ability to walk freely & independently, not bedridden or hospitalized.
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able to walk and move about without assistance. Ambulatory care typically refers to medical care received on an outpatient basis.
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Refers to the ability to walk.
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A patient capable of walking; one who is not bedridden.
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A continuous isle which wraps a circular structure or an apse at its base. Designed for use in Processions.
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Having the ability to walk.
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The passageway found in some churches behind the altar and around the chancel.
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A processional passage way often around the east end of a church.
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The processional aisle around the apse at the east end of a church
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The extension of the aisles around the apse.
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an architectural space creating a walkway, often around a curved form
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A roofed cloister, gallery, or alley; a sheltered place, straight or circular, that makes a covered way for walking. It is also the aisle that makes the circuit of the apse of a church.
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Able to walk. Not confined to bed.
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A continuous aisle in a circular building, as in a church.
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The ambulatory (Med. Lat. ambulatorium, a place for walking, from ambulare, to walk) is the covered passage around a cloister; a term applied sometimes to the procession way around the east end of a cathedral or large church and behind the high altar.
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