patients
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’.
'patients' also found in these Oxford entries:
aversion therapy
- bed-blocking
- capitation
- catchment area
- clinical
- clinician
- dengue
- district nurse
- exempt
- flying doctor
- general practitioner
- gestalt therapy
- gown
- group therapy
- gurney
- halfway house
- management
- panel
- pay bed
- pilocarpine
- porter
- psychodrama
- surgery
- telemedicine
- triage
