The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patient \Pa"tient\, n.
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One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.
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A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
--Sir P. Sidney.In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary.
Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.
Usage examples of "in patient".
Then he shook his head in wry understanding, gave their peaceful surroundings a careful scan out of sheer, instinct-level habit, and folded his arms in patient silence.
So no security cams in patient rooms or in the hallways in patient areas.
Ordinarily I wouldn't agree to deactivate sedation on a woman in Patient Piper's condition.
Men on horseback galloped to and fro recklessly through the crowd, and the heavy-headed oxen stood in patient twos at each wagon.