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patientness

/pey-shuhnt/US // ˈpeɪ ʃənt //UK // (ˈpeɪʃənt) //

耐心,忍耐力,忍耐,坚忍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is under medical care or treatment.
    • : a person or thing that undergoes some action.
    • : Archaic. a sufferer or victim.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like.
    • : characterized by or expressing such a quality: a patient smile.
    • : quietly and steadily persevering or diligent, especially in detail or exactness: a patient worker.
    • : undergoing the action of another.

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Examples

  • For example, a patient may be allergic to an excipient in the newly refilled medicine with a different manufacturer.

  • Eleven health care providers — seven doctors, four nurses, a patient councillor and an endocrinologist — participated in the training.

  • An early look at 45 patients shows that people who did the nose rinses, either saline alone or saline with soap, got rid of their headaches and nose congestion about a week earlier than the people who didn’t use rinses.

  • Cardiac MRIs revealed signs of heart inflammation in 60 of these patients after their infection.

  • However, case-patients were more likely to have reported dining at a restaurant… in the 2 weeks before illness onset than were control-participants.

  • Doctors are prohibited from doing what a patient needs by rigid practice guidelines.

  • For the individual patient, there is the potential for side effects or adverse reactions.

  • This not only defrauds the state out of thousands of dollars, but also deprives the patient who needs the drugs.

  • Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life.

  • No trained medical provider could possibly expect to nourish a patient this way.

  • “But this is not a case of attending a patient, Baron,” said David Arden, a little haughtily.

  • But Yung Pak had long before learned to be patient under such circumstances.

  • Surely, since he had been patient so long without hope, he could be still more patient now that hope had dawned!

  • He glanced up and saw the face of the Bruder watching him with a smile of patient indulgence.

  • He told how the Korean farmer lived a simple, patient life, while at the same time he was ignorant and superstitious.