patient: [14] Etymologically, a patient is someone who is ‘suffering’. The word comes via Old French from the present participle of the Latin verb patī ‘suffer’ (source also of English passion and passive). As an adjective it had already in Latin taken on its present-day sense of ‘bearing affliction with calmness’, but the medical connotations of the noun are a post- Latin development. => passion, passive
patient (adj.)
mid-14c., "enduring without complaint," from Old French pacient and directly from Latin patientem "bearing, supporting, suffering, enduring, permitting" (see patience). Meaning "pertaining to a medical patient" is late 14c., from the noun. Related: Patiently.
patient (n.)
"suffering or sick person under medical treatment," late 14c., from Old French pacient (n.), from the adjective, from Latin patientem (see patience).
雙語例句
1. A patient will usually listen to the doctor'sadvice and act on it.
患者通常都會遵照醫囑行事。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously.
偶爾會有病人過于虛弱，必須通過靜脈注射進食。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs.
靜脈注射了鎮靜劑后病人安然入睡。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The patient rates the therapies on a scale of zero to ten.
患者按十分制給這些治療方法打分。
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5. The earlier the treatment is given, the better the patient's chances.