Definitions for patients
pa·tients

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1. Patients

   Individuals participating in the health care system for the purpose of receiving therapeutic, diagnostic, or preventive procedures.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'patients' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #521

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'patients' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1787

Anagrams for patients »

1. antipest

How to pronounce patients?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say patients in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of patients in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of patients in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of patients in a Sentence

1. Joseph Baker:

   The most powerful medication that we have on the ambulance is our ability to speak with patients. Ketamine takes that away. i don't believe it should be requested by police. I don't tell them when to use their mace. They should not tell me to administer drugs.

2. Jeremy Hess:

   I was taking care of patients in two of our hospitals out here in Seattle during the heat dome and unfortunately this was the first year I can say confidently that I and my patients very clearly experienced the impacts of climate change. I saw paramedics who had burns on their knees from kneeling down to care for patients with heatstroke. And I saw far too many patients die in the ED as a result of their heat exposure this past year.

3. Michael Parson:

   We are committed to and take seriously our duty to ensure that all health facilities in Missouri follow the law, abide by regulations, and protect the safety of patients.

4. John Hick:

   This morning's number we had over 246 patients waiting more than four hours in emergency departments across the state of Minnesota for inpatient beds that are simply not available.

5. Oussama Wazni:

   Patients and their family members should have realistic expectations - especially in this group of patients that have frailty and dementia, we want to make sure the family members and the patient understand we only recommend a procedure when the benefit is more than the risk in all instances.

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