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sick person

n. a person suffering from an illness [syn: diseased person, sufferer]

Usage examples of "sick person".

If you are praying for help for a sick person, see him physically perfect and whole, and imagine him as he is a manifestation of God's Divine love and wisdom.

Branson did not much care for finding himself in the presence of sick people and this was obviously a sick person.

It is absolutely essential that not a single sick person be hidden from us.

It was well known to The People that a tiny measure of powdered dung from a sick person ingested by a healthy child would make the child sick, but only in the mildest way, and never again would the child fall prey to the deadly flux.

Others insist that it can only be caught by inhaling the infectious steams of the body of a sick person.