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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Insolation :: Insolation (n.) Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath.
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..
Autophony :: Autophony (n.) An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest..
Sign :: Sign (n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient..
Autopsorin :: Autopsorin (n.) That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.
Bovine :: Bovine (a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament..
Champ :: Champ (v. i.) To bite or chew impatiently.
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..
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..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..
Quick :: Quick (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper..
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..
Compatient :: Compatient (a.) Suffering or enduring together.
Sufferable :: Sufferable (a.) Able to suffer or endure; patient.
Patiently :: Patiently (adv.) In a patient manner.
Syphilitically :: Syphilitic (n.) A syphilitic patient.
Patient :: Patient (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
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..
Ferret :: Ferret (n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret..
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