Definition of patient

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Patient (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient..

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Rhinoplasty :: Rhinoplasty (n.) Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person..
Bilious :: Bilious (a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms..
Clinic :: Clinic (n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils..
Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy..
Convalesce :: Convalesce (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce..
Weaken :: Weaken (v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination..
Hectic :: Hectic (a.) In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient..
Meek :: Meek (superl.) Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive..
Case :: Case (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury..
Nyctalopia :: Nyctalopia (n.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness..
Disquiet :: Disquiet (a.) Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
Beyond :: Beyond (prep.) Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength..
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..
Outdoor :: Outdoor (a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients..
Sign :: Sign (n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient..
Forbearing :: Forbearing (a.) Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
Patient :: Patient (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient..
Chichevache :: Chichevache (n.) A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition..
Well :: Well (a.) Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well..
Syphilitically :: Syphilitic (n.) A syphilitic patient.
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