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to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for
HSK 1
to visit a doctor / to see a patient
HSK 1
sick person / patient / invalid / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to be patient / patience
HSK 5
patient; sufferer
HSK 6
state of an illness / patient's condition
HSK 6
slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)
HSK 7-9
to provide critical care (to a patient or a diseased plant)
HSK 7-9
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
to visit (a patient, prisoner etc) / to look inquiringly
to bear patiently / to endure silently / to forbear
(of a surgeon) to operate (on sb) / (of a patient) to have an operation
to prep a patient's skin prior to surgery (shaving hair, cleansing etc)
(of a surgeon) to perform an operation / (of a patient) to have an operation / to decapitate / to behead / to single out as a point of attack
to exercise forbearance / patient and accommodating
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
illness / disease / patient / sufferer
not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom) / to take great pains / to be very patient
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
doctor-patient
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
to attend to / to care for (patients etc) / to look after / to wait upon / to serve / also written 伏侍, see also 服事
to guide patiently and systematically (idiom)
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
(medicine) to complain of; a patient's brief account of their illness / (law) main suit; principal claim
to see patients (of doctor) / to hold a surgery
state of an illness / patient's condition
(proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
degree of seriousness of an illness / patient's condition
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
to transfer (a patient for treatment in a different hospital)
treatment involving the use of tonics to restore the patient's health / reinforcing method (in acupuncture)
sick person; patient
to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety) / to suck up to sb; to kiss ass
a patient and his family
to wait patiently / heron
diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition
doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
(neologism c. 2013) organized disruption of healthcare facilities or verbal and physical abuse of medical staff by an aggrieved patient or proxies such as family members or hired thugs, typically aimed at obtaining compensation
(epidemiology) patient zero
to reissue / (of a disease) to recur / (of a patient) to suffer a relapse
critically ill patient
(medicine) digital examination (of a patient's rectum, vagina etc)
patient confidentiality (medicine)
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents) / (esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment
temperature (esp. of medical patient)
"infusion clan", patients who prefer medication by drip rather than orally or by injection etc
person suffering (from a disease or poisoning) / a patient
patient work makes a skilled craftsman
patient work makes a fine product
to visit a sick person or patient
to treat the disease to save the patient / to criticize a person in order to help him
(of a doctor) to see a patient; to give a consultation / (of a patient) to see a doctor
(TCM) diagnosis based on the patient's pulse / to make such a diagnosis
private prosecution (law) / (of a patient) to describe (one's symptoms)
to transfer (a patient) to a different hospital / to transfer to hospital (e.g. a prisoner)
continuous and patient effort (idiom)
to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)


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