patient zeron.

Brit.

/ˌpeɪʃnt ˈzɪərəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt ˈzɪroʊ/,

/ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt ˈziroʊ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: patient n., zero n.

Etymology: < patient n. + zero n. Compare ground zero n. at ground n. Compounds 2a.The expression apparently arose from misapprehension of use of Patient O in a study (at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control) of the spread of (what was later identified as) HIV infection in California, where the letter O stood originally for ‘outside’ (i.e. identifying a particular patient from outside California) but came to be understood instead as the numeral 0. Compare the following, from a publication based on this study, where the numeral 0 appears in the published text:1984 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 76 489/1 AIDS developed in four men in southern California after they had sexual contact with a non-Californian, Patient 0.

U.S.

A single individual posited as the carrier of a disease into an area previously free of it. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1987 R. Shilts And Band played On 147 At the center of the cluster diagram was..Patient Zero of the GRID epidemic.

1993 CBS News Transcripts (Nexis) 7 Jan. I don't know if they call him ‘Patient Zero’ or what, but the guy that ended up spreading it [sc. pulmonary tuberculosis] around used to hang out in here.

1994 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 6 July d1 This makes him the Patient Zero of baby boomer concerns.

1998 Harper's Mag. July 52/1 If every crime can be pinned to its source, why not find a way to pin every epidemic to its ‘patient zero’?

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	patient zero
释义	patient zeron. Brit. /ˌpeɪʃnt ˈzɪərəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt ˈzɪroʊ/, /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt ˈziroʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: patient n., zero n. Etymology: < patient n. + zero n. Compare ground zero n. at ground n. Compounds 2a.The expression apparently arose from misapprehension of use of Patient O in a study (at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control) of the spread of (what was later identified as) HIV infection in California, where the letter O stood originally for ‘outside’ (i.e. identifying a particular patient from outside California) but came to be understood instead as the numeral 0. Compare the following, from a publication based on this study, where the numeral 0 appears in the published text:1984 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 76 489/1 AIDS developed in four men in southern California after they had sexual contact with a non-Californian, Patient 0. U.S. A single individual posited as the carrier of a disease into an area previously free of it. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1987 R. Shilts And Band played On 147 At the center of the cluster diagram was..Patient Zero of the GRID epidemic. 1993 CBS News Transcripts (Nexis) 7 Jan. I don't know if they call him ‘Patient Zero’ or what, but the guy that ended up spreading it [sc. pulmonary tuberculosis] around used to hang out in here. 1994 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 6 July d1 This makes him the Patient Zero of baby boomer concerns. 1998 Harper's Mag. July 52/1 If every crime can be pinned to its source, why not find a way to pin every epidemic to its ‘patient zero’? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1987
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