Definition of patient

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Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering..

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Patiently :: Patiently (adv.) In a patient manner.
Agent :: Agent (a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action..
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
Nephritical :: Nephritical (a.) Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..
Egophony :: Egophony (n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Eager in pursuit; keen in quest; impatient for gratification; keen; as, a sharp appetite..
Hectic :: Hectic (a.) In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient..
Overpatient :: Overpatient (a.) Patient to excess.
Dose :: Dose (n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses..
Homeopathy :: Homeopathy (n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy..
Autopsorin :: Autopsorin (n.) That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.
Meek :: Meek (superl.) Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive..
Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal..
Sufferable :: Sufferable (a.) Able to suffer or endure; patient.
Pectoriloquy :: Pectoriloquy (n.) The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity..
Impatient :: Impatient (a.) Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies..
Hastily :: Hastily (adv.) Passionately; impatiently.
Epilepsy :: Epilepsy (n.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles..
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