What is another word for Patients?

Pronunciation: [pˈe͡ɪʃənts] (IPA)

Patients are individuals seeking medical care, and there are many synonyms for this word. A few of these synonyms include client, customer, recipient, sufferer, and victim. Each term conveys an aspect of the relationship between the patient and medical care provider. For example, "client" suggests a business relationship where the patient is seeking specific services from a provider. "Sufferer" and "victim" suggest the patient is going through some form of hardship or distress. These synonyms are useful for medical professionals in communicating with each other and patients. It is important for medical professionals to use language that patients can understand while also accurately conveying important medical information.

What are the paraphrases for Patients?

Paraphrases are restatements of text or speech using different words and phrasing to convey the same meaning.
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What are the hypernyms for Patients?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Patients

There have been as many as eight thousand Patients admitted within a twelve-month to this establishment.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Nurses seldom think of themselves so long as they can reasonably think of their Patients.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
There had been about three Patients.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Patients

  • Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
    Stanislav Grof
  • Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.
    Norma McCorvey
  • Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
    Armstrong Williams
  • Pain is multidimensional, and so should management be, that is what we are grappling with and it is not at all easy at present, but it will be before long. Important changes take time to integrate and get right. Things are changing for the better and the physiotherapy profession in this country stands to gain a great deal of respect for the way in which it is taking on this material. Patients and society should also benefit, and as Gordon Waddell (1998) powerfully points out, if medicine can create a low back pain disability epidemic, then it can also reverse it.”
    Louis Gifford
  • Patients who suffer from sexual addictions enter treatment paralyzed by shame and humiliation. They describe themselves as “evil” and “defective.” They desperately want to be liberated from the crush of their destructive behavior, but can’t get out from under it’s demoralizing weight
    Paul Hokemeyer

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