inpatient

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=pa=tient

CIDE DICTIONARY

inpatient, n. 

 A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

THESAURUS

inpatient

addressee, apoplectic, arthritic, artist-in-residence, case, consumptive, denizen, dweller, dyspeptic, epileptic, habitant, house detective, incumbent, incurable, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, intern, invalid, live-in maid, locum tenens, occupant, occupier, outpatient, patient, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, rheumatic, shut-in, sick person, sojourner, spastic, sufferer, tenant, terminal case, the sick, valetudinarian