index patient
noun[C]
medicalspecializeduk/ˈɪn.deks ˌpeɪ.ʃənt/us/ˈɪn.deks ˌpeɪ.ʃənt/the firstpersonin agroupknownto besufferingfrom adiseaseormedicalconditionthat can bepassedon toothers, either throughinfectionor in thegenes:
索引患者Thepossibilityoftransmissionfrom theindexpatienton these twoflightscannot beexcluded.不能排除在这两个航班上发生了索引患者传播疾病的情况。
Indexpatientsand allavailablefamilymemberswereinvitedforclinicalexamination.索引患者以及所有能找来的家庭成员都被邀请来做临床检查。
- He was theindexpatientin adeadlyoutbreakat thehospitalin the early 1990s.
- Nose,throatandwoundcultureswere taken fromstaffandpatientswho had hadcontactwith theindexpatient.
- Theindexpatienthad atwinbrotherwhosufferedfromspinabifida and three othersiblingswithheartconditions.
- Four of sevenchildrenof theindexpatient'saunt(father'sside)diedsuddenlyat an earlyage.
Passing on illness & causing disease
- aerosolize
- catching
- community transmission
- contact tracer
- contact tracing
- disseminator
- epidemic
- harbour
- infected
- insalubrious
- noncontagious
- pass on
- percent positive
- pestilential
- positivity rate
- transmit
- transmittable
- unhygienic
- verminous
- virally