Definitions for patients

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patients pa·tient

Spelling: [pey-shuh nt]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ ʃənt/

Patients is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 386 anagrams from letters in patients (aeinpstt).

Definitions for patients

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 patients

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 patients

On the other hand, patients may not perceive much downside to taking the medications, even if they may not help much.

As I got better, I also got curious about what happened to other patients like me.

You will be asked for some, for I feel anxious about some of the patients.

Some other patients, whom one could not think of removing, also remained in the carriage.

My husband was a doctor, and I often went with him to see his patients.

Tribole tells her patients not to change what they eat but how.

The other patients avoid her, and it was some time before I noticed it.

We are channels through which truth must flow to our patients.

On the one hand, patients may not understand that viruses are the cause of most cold symptoms this time of year.

Those who did so used their medical training not to care for patients, but to abet their abuse.