patient

adj.

1. Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.
2. Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.
3. Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide.
4. Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
5. Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
6. Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance: "My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries" (Laurence Sterne).

n.

1. One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
2. Linguistics. A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
3. Archaic. One who suffers.

[Middle English pacient, from Old French, from Latin patiēns, patient-, present participle of patī, to endure.]

patiently pa'tient·ly adv.

Resident patient of a medical installation. Previously, health insurance benefits were limited to in-patient care. Today health insurance policies provide an extensive list of out-patient benefits. See also Group Health Insurance; Health Maintenance Organization (HMO); Outpatient.

adjective

Enduring or capable of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint: forbearing, long-suffering, resigned. See accept/reject.

adj

Definition: capable, willing to endure
Antonyms: agitated, frustrated, impatient, intolerant, unwilling

n

Definition: person being treated for medical problem
Antonyms: doctor

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n

A person under medical or dental care.

An animal that is ill or is undergoing treatment for disease.

• p. data — name, initials, sex, address, postcode, phone number.
• p. monitoring — continuous or frequent periodic clinical assessment.
• p. rights — are adapted from the statement applicable to human medicine. They are really only applicable to the client in the veterinary situation. See client rights.

(DOD) A sick, injured, wounded, or other person requiring medical and/or dental care or treatment.

IN BRIEF: Able to put up with pain, trouble, delay, or boredom, without complaining. Also: A person who is being treated by a doctor.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. — Dame Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964), English poet, critic, author and novelist.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tålmodig, udholden
n. - patient

Nederlands (Dutch)
geduldig, lijdzaam, patiënt

Français (French)
adj. - patient
n. - patient, malade

Deutsch (German)
n. - Patient
adj. - geduldig, beharrlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πάσχων, ασθενής, νοσηλευόμενος, άρρωστος
adj. - καρτερικός, υπομονετικός

Italiano (Italian)
paziente

Português (Portuguese)
n. - paciente
adj. - paciente, conformado

Русский (Russian)
пациент, терпеливый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - paciente, asiduo , perseverante, susceptible
n. - paciente, enfermo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - patient
adj. - tålmodig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
忍耐的, 有耐性的, 容忍的, 病人

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 忍耐的, 有耐性的, 容忍的
n. - 病人

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 인내심이 강한, 잘 견디는, 허용하는
n. - 환자, 손님, 수동자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 患者, 受動者
adj. - 忍耐強い, 勤勉な, 耐えられる, 許容する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صبور, صابر, زبون (صفه) مرضي, صبور‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מטופל, חולה‬
n. - ‮סבלני, ארך-רוח‬

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