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patient Definition

pa·tient (pā′s̸hənt)

adjective

  1. bearing or enduring pain, trouble, etc. without complaining or losing self-control
  2. refusing to be provoked or angered, as by an insult; forbearing; tolerant
  3. calmly tolerating delay, confusion, inefficiency, etc.
  4. able to wait calmly for something desired
  5. showing or characterized by patience a patient face
  6. steady; diligent; persevering a patient worker
  7. Rare receiving action; passive

Etymology: ME pacient < OFr < L patiens, patient, prp. of pati: see passion

noun

  1. a person receiving care or treatment, esp. from a doctor
  2. Rare a person who receives an action
  3. Gram. the word or words designating the person or thing affected by the action of the verb

patient Related Forms
pa′·tiently adverb
patient Idioms

patient of

  1. capable of bearing (fatigue, thirst, etc.)
  2. admitting of or having (a certain meaning)
patient Synonyms

patient

modif.

  1. Enduring without complaint

    forbearing, mild-tempered, composed, tranquil, serene, long-suffering, unruffled, imperturbable, passive, submissive, weak, cold-blooded, easy-going, philosophic, tolerant, gentle, unresentful; see also resigned.

    Antonyms irritable*, violent*, resentful. *

  2. Quietly persistent in an activity

    pertinacious, assiduous, steady, dependable, calm, reliable, placid, stable, composed, unwavering, imperturbable, quiet, serene, unimpassioned, dispassionate, enduring; see also regular 3.

    Antonyms restless*, irrepressible*, feverish.

patient Synonyms

patient

n.

case, inmate, victim, sufferer, sick individual, ill individual, one seeking help, one seeking cure, one seeking relief, outpatient, inpatient, bed patient, emergency ward patient, convalescent, one recovering from an illness, one recovering from an injury, hospital case, hospitalized person, subject, victim.

patient Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • treat: Patients treated with rivastigmine improved across a wide range of symptoms.
  • refer: However, most referred patients did not see a physician.
  • admit: Further analyzes are being conducted to determine the cost effectiveness of CT scanning in patients not admitted to hospital.

Modifies a noun

  • care: Her idea was to create a framework for delivery of high quality patient care.
  • leaflet: The guidelines are accompanied by a new patient leaflet on multiple births.
  • satisfaction: The aim of this paper was to evaluate patient satisfaction with the service.

Adjective modifier

  • elderly: Elderly Patients with Mental Health Difficulties: The above will also apply here.
  • diabetic: Design: Randomized controlled study of high-risk diabetic patients.
  • ill: Research suggests children can cope with seeing ill patients in ICU.
  • obese: References: The use of metformin to augment the induction of ovulation in obese infertile patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Preposition: with

  • epilepsy: This will aid our understanding of why some patients with epilepsy have problems with developing speech and language.
  • cancer: A total of 217 patients with untreated bladder cancer were evaluated, using fresh bladder tumor specimens.
  • diabetes: We undertook a countywide satisfaction survey for patients with diabetes in 2002.
  • ulcer: Ulcers usually last 7 to 10 days. However, patients with recurrent ulcers may find they take up to six weeks to heal.
  • disease: Patients with sickle cell disease are treated at The Royal London.
  • hypertension: This latter statement particularly applies to patients with significant pulmonary hypertension.

Noun used with modifier

  • cancer: This is a natural reaction by anyone, not only cancer patients.
  • stroke: He emphasized that the diagnosis of stroke patients was often wrong and that early intervention and rehabilitation can make a significant difference to outcome.
  • NHS: Indeed, for many items in band 3 the private fee will be less than the NHS patient charge.
  • transplant: HIV-positive when their CD4+ count falls below 200 per µl and lung transplant patients.
patient Quotes

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.

—Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet

As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Beware the fury of a patient man.

—Dryden,John

It's like saying that the patient died but the good news is that he's eating less.

—Jacobs, Andrew,Jr

The most patient people grow wearyat last with being continually wetted with rain; except, of course, in the Scottish Highlands, where there are not enough fine intervals to point the difference. Stevenson

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

My soul; sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes, every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

—Quarles, Francis

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

—Bible (Old Testament)

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apttoteach; Not giventowine, nostriker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

—Owen,Wilfred

I have long held the notion that if a vet can't catch his patient there's nothing much to worry about.

—Herriot,James pseudonym of James Alfred Wight

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