patient1 nounpatient2 adjective
patientpa‧tient1 /ˈpeɪʃənt/ ●●● S2 W1 noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Clinical trials show that some patients with breast cancer do better if they take the drug for five years after surgery.
- He gave a half million pound donation towards the care of AIDs patients.
- St Dominic's Hospital treats about 10,000 patients a year.
- A comprehensive review of the patient can be achieved through the use of the care plan.
- Although these patients usually have astonishingly good morale and fighting spirit, everything humanely possible should be done to keep it up.
- In all five patients under 50 creatinine values returned to normal.
- One out of every seven plastic surgery patients is a man.
- Other patients had external haemorrhoids, though less serious.
- San Mateo County officials already are looking into the prospects for their patients.
- The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests, based on their complaints.
- The outcome of these patients is uncertain and the advisability of restorative proctocolectomy is, therefore, controversial.
THESAURUS
someone who buys goods or services from a shop or company: · Customers were waiting for the shop to open.· The bank is one of our biggest customers.
someone who pays for a service from a professional person or company: · He has a meeting with one of his clients.· The company buys and sells shares on behalf of their clients
someone who goes to the shops looking for things to buy: · The streets were full of Christmas shoppers.
someone who pays to stay in a hotel: · Guests must leave their rooms by 10 am.
formal a customer of a particular shop, restaurant, or hotel – usually written on signs: · The notice said ‘Parking for Patrons Only’.
someone who is getting medical treatment from a doctor, or in a hospital: · He is a patient of Dr Williams.
anyone who buys goods or uses services – used when considering these people as a group who have particular rights, needs, or behaviour: · Consumers are demanding more environmentally-friendly products.· the rights of the consumer· The law is designed to protect consumers who buy goods on the Internet.
the number of people who want to buy a product, or the type of people who want to buy it: · The market for organic food is growing all the time.· a magazine aimed at the youth market
formal the type of customers that a particular shop, restaurant etc gets: · The hotel has a very upmarket clientele.· They have a wealthy international clientele.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is ill someone who is ill and is being looked after by a doctor, nurse etc: · St Dominic's Hospital treats about 10,000 patients a year.cancer/leukemia/AIDS etc patients: · He gave a half million pound donation towards the care of AIDs patients.patients with cancer/aids/leukemia etc: · Clinical trials show that some patients with breast cancer do better if they take the drug for five years after surgery.
someone who has a particular illness or who often has a particular illness: · Lupus is a disease of the immune system and nine out of ten sufferers are women.hay fever/asthma/cancer etc sufferer: · The health centre runs a support group for Parkinson's disease sufferers.· Summer can be a nightmare for hay fever sufferers.sufferer from hay fever/asthma/cancer etc: · Many sufferers from depression struggle on for years before seeking help.
someone who is permanently ill and needs to be looked after, especially if they have to stay in bed: · My father's an invalid, and needs constant care.somebody's invalid wife/son etc: · Barbara decided to move her invalid mother to Mississippi, so that she could look after her herself.
people who are ill and need to be helped or treated: · At that time there were no state benefits for the old and the sick.· terrible wartime photographs of the sick and the dying
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + patient
cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups
· One in three cancer patients suffers no pain at all.
(=one with heart disease)· Some heart patients have to wait between three months and a year for surgery.
(=one with problems relating to their mind)· The drug was used in the past to treat mental patients.
· The ward was packed with seriously ill patients.
· All hospital patients have to follow a daily routine.
verbs (=try to cure their illness or injury)· Patients are treated in terms of priority.
· I stayed in the treatment room while the doctor saw another patient.
· Can you please wait outside while the physician examines the patient.
· Twelve of these patients were receiving treatment with a new drug.
(=starts recovering)· Some patients respond quickly and satisfactorily to treatment.
· The treatment succeeded and the patient recovered rapidly.
· This examination should be done when the patient is admitted to hospital.
(=allowed to leave it)· The patient was discharged after eight days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=care of someone who is ill)· The changes should lead to better patient care.
· a long-term coma patient
cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups· A family crisis can adversely affect the developing parent-child relationship.
(=among customers/patients/voters etc)· Staff work as a team to achieve customer satisfaction.
· Some stroke victims recover fully.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· It is scandalous that elderly patients should be treated in that way.· Medicaid finances health care for poor families, many of the disabled and many elderly nursing home patients.· These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops.· The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them.· However, it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services.· By 1948, however, Cosin was pointing out that the idea that most elderly patients were untreatable was a misconception.· More intensive rehabilitation activities with chronic and elderly patients were ruled out.· Dieulafoy's lesion is a disease of mainly middle aged and elderly male patients.
· Another possible contributory factor is the increasing difficulty in admitting acutely ill patients.· Meanwhile, he stayed his order to close the clinic that would have disrupted treatment of 350 terminally ill patients.· Halmi etal, found a lifetime prevalence of 68% for major depression in a sample of severely ill anorexia nervosa patients.· Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.· It will be the first journal to make immediately available findings that could save or extend the lives of critically ill patients.· These very ill patients will usually be seen in an emergency room or hospital setting.· It has also been suggested that complex ventricular arrhythmias carry a worse prognosis in patients with non Q wave infarcts.· They represent a group of terminally ill patients and their doctors.
NOUN· We tried to find out whether reactivation of T gondii in AIDS patients induces similar antibody secretion.· Today, like many other public hospitals that once took polio patients, it houses many AIDS patients.· In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it.· Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.· During 1992 twice as many new carriers or AIDS patients were diagnosed as in 1991.· There is a promising precedent, giving hope to AIDS patients.· The typical AIDS patient comes into his office at least once a month, needing tests, treatments, even hospitalization.· Like many AIDS patients, Pieters swallows the drug combo to help his body suppress the virus day after day.
· Other cancer patients have felt similarly driven to do something to make a difference for other people with the same illness.· Then they studied blood and tissue samples from 211 Ashkenazim who had been colon cancer patients.· However, some organisations have developed special diets which they suggest will help cancer patients.· The quick, new, high-dose radiation Brachytherapy for cancer patients is also performed at the hospital.· It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.· Dedicated nineteenth-century physicians working with cancer patients had none of the sophisticated instruments and devices we have today.· You wouldn't quarantine cancer patients, would you?· In a study of terminal cancer patients, the positive response was even higher.
VERB· The rationalization is that it helps patients.· What kind of statements and questions are useful in helping patients toward the task appropriate in the Dying Time?· Even with these advances I am sure that diabetic care will focus on helping patients to care for themselves effectively.· Counselors are also available to help patients with ongoing issues that may have become unmanageable as a result of their illness.· Nurses can help these patients by first observing tactfully whether or not they can read and write.· And then helping patients move toward it.· However, this would not help Alzheimer's patients, whose cells actually deteriorate during the disease.· It is entirely legitimate to criticize the modern hospital system strongly so as to help patients function better within it.
· Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients.· She says they treat all patients they same, as long as they pay.· The line between legal and illegal is very fine for doctors treating dying patients.· What does this mean and should we be treating these patients?· Have you seen how some therapists treat their patients?· The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it'd estimated.· They plan to treat around fifty patients a week, for the next month.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► fee-paying student/patient
- First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
- Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
WORD FAMILYnounpatience ≠ impatiencepatientadjectivepatient ≠ impatientadverbpatiently ≠ impatiently
someone who is receiving medical treatment from a doctor or in a hospital► see thesaurus at customerCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + patienta cancer/AIDS etc patient· One in three cancer patients suffers no pain at all.a heart patient (=one with heart disease)· Some heart patients have to wait between three months and a year for surgery.a mental/psychiatric patient (=one with problems relating to their mind)· The drug was used in the past to treat mental patients.a seriously ill/critically ill patient· The ward was packed with seriously ill patients.a hospital patient· All hospital patients have to follow a daily routine.verbstreat a patient (=try to cure their illness or injury)· Patients are treated in terms of priority.see a patient· I stayed in the treatment room while the doctor saw another patient.examine a patient· Can you please wait outside while the physician examines the patient.a patient receives treatment/a drug· Twelve of these patients were receiving treatment with a new drug.a patient responds to treatment (=starts recovering)· Some patients respond quickly and satisfactorily to treatment.a patient recovers· The treatment succeeded and the patient recovered rapidly.a patient is admitted (to hospital)· This examination should be done when the patient is admitted to hospital.a patient is discharged (from hospital) (=allowed to leave it)· The patient was discharged after eight days.
patient1 nounpatient2 adjective
patientpatient2 ●●● W3 adjective WORD ORIGINpatient2
Origin:
1300-1400 French, Latin, present participle of pati ‘to suffer’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Halle was patient, waiting for the boy to finish his explanation.
- I'm sure she'll write soon. Just try to be patient.
- The audience waited patiently for the show to begin.
- The long and patient struggle to achieve equal rights will continue.
- In the box office, which is occupied by two women with patient smiles, they blame the trains.
- She takes the time to be more patient and is in less of a hurry.
Longman Language Activatorwhen someone is waiting for something to happen
able to wait calmly without becoming annoyed or bored: · I'm sure she'll write soon. Just try to be patient.· Halle was patient, waiting for the boy to finish his explanation.
becoming annoyed because you have been waiting for a long time: · Don't be so impatient. I'm working as fast as I can.· By this time there was a queue of impatient customers waiting to be served.impatient for: · The new minister was almost immediately the object of attack by politicians and press impatient for results.get/become/grow impatient (with): · I could see that Max was getting impatient with me.
to wait happily or excitedly for something that is going to happen: · I'm really looking forward to this trip to Japan.· We used to look forward to the weekends because that was when we could spend some time together.look forward to to doing something: · I look forward to meeting you next month.
if you say you can't wait , you mean you feel excited and impatient because something good is going to happen and you want it to happen as soon as possible: · We're flying to Austria on Friday. I can't wait!can't wait for: · I can't wait for Christmas!· School is so boring. I can't wait for the holidays to come.can't wait to do something: · I can't wait to see their new house.· She couldn't wait to quit her job and get married.
to wait anxiously to see what is going to happen, especially when there is a possibility that something bad may happen: · Rachel held her breath as she waited for his answer.· The art world will be holding its breath to see how much these paintings sell for at auction.
waiting hopefully and excitedly for something to happen: · Bright expectant faces were turned upward toward the stage.· Expectant crowds waited outside the theatre.· The darkened assembly room became suddenly hushed and expectant as the picture appeared on the screen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY You’ll just have to be patient and wait till I’m off the phone. He waited patiently for Katherine to speak.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups
You’ll just have to be patient and wait till I’m off the phone. He waited patiently for Katherine to speak. (=care of someone who is ill)· The changes should lead to better patient care.
· a long-term coma patient
cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups· A family crisis can adversely affect the developing parent-child relationship.
(=among customers/patients/voters etc)· Staff work as a team to achieve customer satisfaction.
· Some stroke victims recover fully.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· We're more patient, too.· We have to be disciplined enough to be more patient.· I wished I had been more patient and stayed at the witchdoctor's.· She takes the time to be more patient and is in less of a hurry.
· Everyone who uses it has been very patient.· Nervous and jumpy, he was not very patient with Miss Tish when she came home from the hospital.· You need to be very patient in trying to convince him to see a doctor.· She was very patient but we'd lost time.· The panel members appeared to him to be very patient, very fair, and very thorough.· You need to be very patient while they are absorbing the facts, perhaps over several days or weeks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► fee-paying student/patient
- First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
- Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
WORD FAMILYnounpatience ≠ impatiencepatientadjectivepatient ≠ impatientadverbpatiently ≠ impatiently
able to wait calmly for a long time or to accept difficulties, people’s annoying behaviour etc without becoming angry OPP impatient: You’ll just have to be patient and wait till I’m off the phone.patient with Louise was very patient with me.—patiently adverb: He waited patiently for Katherine to speak.