What's the difference between ambulate and perambulate?

Ambulate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk; to move about.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (3) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
  • (4) A major functional problem for the postpolio patient is the loss of ambulation ability.
  • (5) Immediate recovery time (emergence from anesthesia) and intermediate recovery time (ambulation, oral intake, and discharge time) were significantly shorter after propofol anesthesia.
  • (6) These data were compared to data collected on four able-bodied control subjects during ambulation at matched speeds.
  • (7) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
  • (8) Continuous infusion of Rg1 attenuated anorexia, increased water intake, and decreased ambulation, that were produced by elevation of environmental temperature from 21 degrees C to 30 degrees C. Consequently, rats maintained body weight and rectal temperature unchanged.
  • (9) Comparing the two forms of surgical treatment, statistically significant factors associated with primary hemi-arthroplastic replacement included: pre-injury nursing home residence, pre-injury ambulation requiring assistance, age greater than 79 years, slight elevation in serum creatinine values, abnormal electrocardiograms in patients over 77 years of age, time from injury to surgery of four or more days, and the use of spinal anesthesia (P less than 0.05).
  • (10) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
  • (11) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
  • (12) There are no more operational hospitals and not a single ambulance to rescue the ever-growing number of wounded and sick.
  • (13) The improvements between 1979 and 1990 are attributed to better airway care, especially the increased use of intubation and mechanical ventilation during transfer, and to greater appreciation of how relatively simple measures can reduce the potential hazards of ambulance transfer.
  • (14) (You'll also need oxygen if you didn't already know that vital air ambulance services are funded not by our taxes but charitable donations.)
  • (15) Thanks to a midwife’s visit and the Herts air ambulance, she survived – with a rare pituitary gland condition identified weeks later.
  • (16) The purpose of this study was to identify, characterize, and compare the forces generated during patient transport in helicopter and ground ambulances.
  • (17) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
  • (18) For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic.
  • (19) Tranexamic acid reduced the incidence of secondary hemorrhage significantly: none of 26 eyes of patients who received systemically administered tranexamic acid and were confined to bed rest rebled, and only one (1.1%) of 95 eyes of children who received tranexamic acid and were allowed free ambulation in the hospital rebled.
  • (20) A paramedic working for an Oxfam-funded organisation was killed today after an ambulance was hit by an Israeli-fired shell, the charity said.

Perambulate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
  • (v. i.) To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
  • (2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
  • (3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
  • (4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
  • (5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
  • (6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.