Definitions for patient

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patient pa·tient

Spelling: [pey-shuh nt]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ ʃənt/

Patient is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in patient (aeinptt).

Definitions for patient

noun

1. a person who is under medical care or treatment.
2. a person or thing that undergoes some action.
3. Archaic. a sufferer or victim.

Idioms

1. patient of, having or showing the capacity for endurance: susceptible of:

adjective

1. bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like.
2. characterized by or expressing such a quality:
3. quietly and steadily persevering or diligent, especially in detail or exactness:
4. undergoing the action of another (opposed to agent).

Origin of patient

1275-1325; Middle English pacient (adj. and noun) Middle French Latin patient- (stem of patiēns), present participle of patī to undergo, suffer, bear; see Examples for patient

No trained medical provider could possibly expect to nourish a patient this way.

The young man tried to be patient over her density in this time of crisis.

"I feel my patient growing better," the doctor said, with satisfaction.

Vice was like hysterics—the more kindness you showed the worse grew the patient!

Emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death.

His face had a patient, expectant look, as if he waited for them to do something.

Doctors are prohibited from doing what a patient needs by rigid practice guidelines.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

This not only defrauds the state out of thousands of dollars, but also deprives the patient who needs the drugs.

Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life.