单词 | mental patient |
释义 | > as lemmasmental patient mental patient n. a person under medical care for a mental illness; a psychiatric patient.Now somewhat dated, and sometimes avoided as being potentially offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] > others private patient1754 panel patient1913 mental patient1916 inactivator1957 responaut1964 gomer1972 1916 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 174 528/2 (heading) After-care of mental patients. 1938 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 29 37 The implications of Wiersma's results obtained from mental patients have therefore been shown to hold for normal subjects. 1970 ‘T. Coe’ Wax Apple (1973) iv. 33 The majority of mental patients who have been hospitalized once will be hospitalized several times more. 1973 ‘D. Shannon’ No Holiday for Crime (1974) iv. 61 If you're going to say a mental patient, I don't think it was that kind of hospital. 1990 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. b1/1 Their residents are mainly former mental patients or poor people unable to care for themselves. < as lemmas |
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