patient
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
patient/ˈpeɪʃnt/
▶adjective having or showing patience. ▶noun a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
– derivatives
patiently adverb.
patiently adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. patient-, pati ‘suffer’.
'patient' also found in these Oxford entries:
anomia
- arrest
- bag
- bear
- bed
- bedpan
- bedside
- behaviour therapy
- bloodletting
- charter
- Christmas disease
- combination therapy
- contact
- couch
- crash
- cross-infection
- dialyse
- digitalize
- drape
- dreich
- drip
- drip feed
- elective
- euthanasia
- forbearance
- forbearing
- gag
- high-dependency
- inpatient
- intensive care
- iron lung
- operating table
- operation
- outpatient
- oxygen tent
- patience
- persistent vegetative state
- placebo
- placebo effect
- prescription
- reception order
- referral
- reiki
- sign
- softly-softly
- stage
- straitjacket
- sufferance
- symptom
