📖 Определения и значения для слова patient
📒 a person who is receiving medical treatment, especially in a hospital
- cancer/AIDS/heart patients
- critically ill/elderly patients
- Hospitals are treating more patients than ever before.
📒 a person who receives treatment from a particular doctor, dentist, etc.
- He's one of Dr Shaw's patients.
- He only takes private patients.
📒 the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb. In the sentence ‘I started the car’, the patient is car.