patient
/ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/ noun A2- A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care. · Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.· At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
- The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action. · The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Plural patients
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Faria, as we have said, without having recovered the use of his hand and foot, had regained all the clearness of his understanding, and had gradually, besides the moral instructions we have detailed, taught his youthful companion the patient and sublime duty of a prisoner, who learns to make something from nothing.
However, there’s no good talking any more about it, Watson; but unless some lucky chance comes our way I fear that the Norwood Disappearance Case will not figure in that chronicle of our successes which I foresee that a patient public will sooner or later have to endure.”
This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace-loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air à l’Anglaise, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.
On the third night after Brunton’s disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair, when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.
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