Definition of patient

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Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

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Passive :: Passive (a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission..
Hysteria :: Hysteria (n.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits..
Delirious :: Delirious (a.) Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies..
Longanimity :: Longanimity (n.) Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience.
Visit :: Visit (v. t.) To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient..
Feverish :: Feverish (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish..
Palpation :: Palpation (n.) Examination of a patient by touch.
Corybantiasm :: Corybantiasm (n.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
Convalesce :: Convalesce (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce..
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..
Cure :: Cure (v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient..
Asthmatical :: Asthmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient..
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Eager in pursuit; keen in quest; impatient for gratification; keen; as, a sharp appetite..
Compatient :: Compatient (a.) Suffering or enduring together.
Zoanthropy :: Zoanthropy (n.) A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
Abide :: Abide (v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.
Syphilitically :: Syphilitic (n.) A syphilitic patient.
Water Bed :: Water bed () A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients..
Restive :: Restive (a.) Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory..
Sound :: Sound (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient..
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