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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Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him—it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnœa and death from cardiac exhaustion.
“Well now, I dunno,” said Matthew, who, being patient and wise and, above all, hungry, had deemed it best to let Marilla talk her wrath out unhindered, having learned by experience that she got through with whatever work was on hand much quicker if not delayed by untimely argument.
You have avoided this, I understand, for fear that pressure should be put upon you to segregate the patient."
Kent has seen the patient.
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