Definition of Patient

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Patient

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

Forbearing; long-suffering.

ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

To compose, to calm.

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Patient Quotations

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
David Ogilvy

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

Patient Translations

patient in Afrikaans is geduldig
patient in French is patient
patient in German is geduldig
patient in Italian is indulgente
patient in Portuguese is paciente
patient in Spanish is paciente

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