The act of walking or moving around from place to place.
From Latin 'ambulare' (to walk) + '-tion' suffix indicating action or process. The root 'ambulare' comes from Proto-Indo-European and is related to words meaning 'to move about.' The suffix '-tion' comes from Latin and creates nouns from verbs.
Ambulation is why we call hospitals 'ambulances'—they're vehicles that move around picking people up! The same Latin root gives us 'ambulatory clinics' where patients walk in and out without staying overnight, showing how one root word branches across medicine.
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