patient – English noun declension

English noun forms of patient

Noun: patient
Singularpatient
Pluralpatients

Sample Sentences

  • Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
  • At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
  • The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time. [2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):]
  • The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
  • The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects. [1982, Paul J. Hopper, Tense-aspect: Between Semantics & Pragmatics, →ISBN:]
  • Since we have argued that the absolutive argument in Dyirbal is the grammatical subject of its clause, we must conclude that in the antipassive construction the agent replaces the patient as grammatical subject. [2004, Paul Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, →ISBN, page 292:]
  • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. [c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue:]
  • For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. the patient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer. [1988, Sarah Waterlow, Sarah Broadie, Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics, →ISBN, page 159:]
  • How does a person change from a patient to an agent in shaping and living a course of life? [1994, Larry Cochran, Joan Laub, Becoming an Agent: Patterns and Dynamics for Shaping Your Life, →ISBN:]
  • According to the tradition, when an agent acts on a patient, the change is located in the patient. If the patient reacts on the agent, then the agent is a patient in the new relation. [1999, Lloyd P. Gerson, Aristotle: Logic and metaphysics, →ISBN, page 127:]
  • The starting point is that all events involve an agent and a patient. Agents and patients are modelled as (material or non-material) objects, and can therefore be represented as points in conceptual spaces. [2010, Mohua Banerjee, Anil Seth, Logic and Its Applications: Fourth Indian Conference, ICLA 2011, →ISBN, page 7:]

Etymology

From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”). See: Middle English Nouns 'pacient', Latin Nouns 'patiens'.

Verbs referencing "patient"

Polish Nouns pacjent.