patient
pronunciation
How to pronounce patient in British English:
UK [ˈpeɪʃnt]
How to pronounce patient in American English:
US [ˈpeɪʃnt]
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- Noun:
- a person who requires medical care
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
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- Adjective:
- enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance
- enduring without protest or complaint
Word Origin
- patient
- patient: [14] Etymologically, a patient is someone who is ‘suffering’. The word comes via Old French from the present participle of the Latin verb patī ‘suffer’ (source also of English passion and passive). As an adjective it had already in Latin taken on its present-day sense of ‘bearing affliction with calmness’, but the medical connotations of the noun are a post- Latin development.=> passion, passive
- patient (adj.)
- mid-14c., "enduring without complaint," from Old French pacient and directly from Latin patientem "bearing, supporting, suffering, enduring, permitting" (see patience). Meaning "pertaining to a medical patient" is late 14c., from the noun. Related: Patiently.
- patient (n.)
- "suffering or sick person under medical treatment," late 14c., from Old French pacient (n.), from the adjective, from Latin patientem (see patience).
Synonym
client outpatient person sufferer infirm valetudinarian invalid victim convalescent case ill sick
tenacious persevering dogged fixed unswerving sedulous unflinching unshakeable indomitable indefatigable inexorable unremitting assiduous steadfast resolute pertinacious undeviating persistent firm
Example
- 1. ( Advanced icu charges hospitals a per patient fee . )
- 2. Ford and trott convinced burch that they 're patient investors , as focused on long-term growth as she is .
- 3. The net effect is patient outcomes that are inferior to and more expensive than what they should be .
- 4. So candidates may have to be a little more patient than usual . "
- 5. Tonic for health is changing how medical patient data is collected and analyzed using ipads and user-friendly apps .