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or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation: The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison.

To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk. Kipling.

of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. He fell down in a trance. Chaucer.…

ly; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.

To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith.

cillus tuberculosis) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tubercles and tuberculosis.

Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson.

endship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

ered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.

to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination. "His notion weakens, his discernings are lethargied." Shak.

To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

ing in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well. "Your friends are well." Shak. Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake Gen. xliii. 27.

To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.

A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.