Patient is an adjective that refers to the individual who has patience or, from a medical point of view, to what is sick and under medical care.
The correct spelling of this word has no accent, as some people imagine. The adjective (derived from patience) and the noun (synonymous with “sick”) have the same spelling and pronunciation.
One patient person, that is, who presents patience, serenity and tranquility as virtues, is characterized by being calm, knowing how to wait and persevering in their attitudes.
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One hospital patient is characterized as one who needs medical and clinical care, either because he is sick or suspects he has a disease.
The expression "patient zero" is used to refer to the first individual who showed symptoms of a disease or the first person to be infected with a certain virus, for example.
already one "terminal pacient", according to the usual medical language, refers to the patient who has an advanced stage of an illness that cannot be cured and, for this reason, is liable to die at any time.
Under the law, the term "patient" is used for the individual who benefited from an action of habeas corpus.
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Etymologically, the word patient is derived from the Latin pat and from the greek pathe, which means “suffer” or “bear”. This is also the same etymological root for the words “sympathy” and “pathology”, for example.
Synonyms for patient
- Sick;
- Sick;
- Submissive;
- Tolerant;
- Resigned;
- Eupathic;
- Calm;
- Pacific;
- tame;
- Serene;
- Quiet;
- Quiet;
- Persistent;
- Phlegmatic;
- Easygoing.