Patient
Of sufferer, case, doctor-patient relation and nurse-patient relation.
A person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly".
This concept's ID is @1~55209
Contains
- arthritic
A person afflicted with arthritis; "the hands of an elderly arthritic".
- analysand
A person undergoing psychoanalysis.
- hypertensive
A person who has abnormally high blood pressure.
- hypochondriac
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments.
- outpatient
A patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated.
- hypotensive
A person who has abnormally low blood pressure.
- index case
The earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological stu...
- inmate
A patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated.
- alexic
A person with alexia.
- vaccinee
A patient who has been vaccinated.