'In patient' definitions:

Definition of 'In patient'

From: GCIDE
  • Patient \Pa"tient\, n.
  • 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. [1913 Webster]
  • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. [1913 Webster]
  • Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
  • In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary.
  • Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary. [1913 Webster]