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Examination of a patient by touch. Quain.

A name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and R. Hydrolapathum).

uring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission. The best virtue, passive fortitude. Massinger.

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hat…

The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. Pope.

y. Post-mortem examination (Med.), an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.

To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.

onsciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. -- Psy*chan`a*lyt"ic (#), a. -- Psy`cha*nal"y*sist (#), n.

Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended. Latimer.

Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

l or radical quantity. -- Rational symptom (Med.), one elicited by the statements of the patient himself and not as the result of a physical examination.

r of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.

y; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.

o often used reflexively. I here resign my government to thee. Shak. Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost. Milton. What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God Tiilotson.

The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.

al resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking.

Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.