patient
Adjective
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also:
- uncomplaining - not complaining
- tolerant - showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
similar to:- diligent, persevering - quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
- enduring, long-suffering - patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
- forbearing, longanimous - showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment
- patient of, tolerant - showing the capacity for endurance
- unhurried - capable of accepting delay with equanimity
Noun
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is a type of:
- case - a person requiring professional services
- diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
subtypes:- alexic - a person with alexia
- analysand - a person undergoing psychoanalysis
- arthritic - a person afflicted with arthritis
- hypertensive - a person who has abnormally high blood pressure
- hypochondriac - a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments
- hypotensive - a person who has abnormally low blood pressure
- index case - the earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study
- inmate, inpatient - a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
- outpatient - a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated
- vaccinee - a patient who has been vaccinated
belongs to:- doctor-patient relation - the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient
- nurse-patient relation - the responsibility of a nurse to act in the best interests of the patient
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is a type of: participant role, semantic role - (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clausesame as: affected role, patient role
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