sick person
1sick person — index patient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2sick person — noun a person suffering from an illness • Syn: ↑diseased person, ↑sufferer • Derivationally related forms: ↑suffer (for: ↑sufferer) • Hypernyms: ↑unfortunat …
3sick person — Synonyms and related words: apoplectic, arthritic, case, consumptive, dyspeptic, epileptic, incurable, inpatient, invalid, outpatient, patient, rheumatic, shut in, spastic, sufferer, terminal case, the sick, valetudinarian …
4sick person — ill person, person suffering from a disease …
5SICK, VISITING THE — (Heb. בִּקּוּר חוֹלִים; bikkur ḥolim). Visiting the sick in order to cheer, aid, and relieve their suffering is one of the many social obligations which Judaism has clothed with religious significance. God Himself is said to have observed this… …
6sick — sick1 [sik] adj. [ME sik, seke < OE seoc, akin to Ger siech < IE base * seug , to be troubled or grieved > Arm hiucanim, (I) am weakening] 1. suffering from disease or illness; unwell; ill: in this sense, now rare or literary in England… …
7sick|ie — «SIHK ee», noun. 1. U.S. Slang. a sick person, especially one who is mentally ill. 2. Australian Slang. a sick leave …
8sick|bed — «SIHK BEHD», noun. the bed of a sick person: »She would get up from a sickbed to go shopping (New Yorker) …
9sick|room — «SIHK ROOM, RUM», noun. a room in which a sick person is cared for …
10Sick role — The Sick Role was a concept invented by Talcott Parsons in 1951. It is a term widely used in medical sociology. ‘Being Sick’ is not simply a ‘state of fact’ or ‘condition’, it is a specifically patterned social role. The theory outlined two… …
