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{
"term": "patient",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person who is receiving medical treatment, especially in a hospital",
"sensetop": "patient with something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "cancer/AIDS/heart patients"
},
{
"text": "critically ill/elderly patients"
},
{
"text": "Hospitals are **treating** more **patients** than ever before."
},
{
"text": "patients receiving/undergoing treatment"
},
{
"text": "patients with heart disease",
"contextForm": "patient with something"
},
{
"text": "**patient care/safety**"
},
{
"text": "Many patients present with conditions that cannot be easily diagnosed."
},
{
"text": "Patients undergoing chemotherapy may be at a higher risk of infection."
},
{
"text": "The patient has a severe heart condition."
},
{
"text": "The patient was admitted to hospital yesterday."
},
{
"text": "These patients are responding well to the new drug."
},
{
"text": "A high proportion of their lung cancer patients had been heavy smokers."
}
],
"topics": ["Healthcare"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["AIDS", "cancer", "cardiac"],
"verb + patient": ["assess", "examine", "see"],
"patient + verb": [
"develop something",
"have something",
"suffer from something"
],
"patient + noun": ["care"],
"preposition": ["patient with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who receives treatment from a particular doctor, dentist, etc.",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's one of Dr Shaw's patients."
},
{
"text": "He only takes private patients."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["AIDS", "cancer", "cardiac"],
"verb + patient": ["assess", "examine", "see"],
"patient + verb": [
"develop something",
"have something",
"suffer from something"
],
"patient + noun": ["care"],
"preposition": ["patient with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb. In the sentence ‘I started the car’, the patient is car.",
"labels": "(grammar)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpeɪʃnt/",
"audio": "pa/patient/patient__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpeɪʃnt/",
"audio": "pa/patient/patient__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from Latin patient- ‘suffering’, from the verb pati."
}