affected patient

collocation in English

meaningsofaffectedandpatient

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affected
adjective
uk
/əˈfek.tɪd/us
/əˈfek.tɪd/
artificial and ...
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patient
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/us
/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/
a person who is receiving medical care, or who is cared for by a particular doctor or dentist ...
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(Definition ofaffectedandpatientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The naso-temporal comparison shows smaller and more similar waveforms for the more affected as compared to control and lessaffectedpatient.
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When affective forecasting persists it can have serious consequences for theaffectedpatient.
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The verb stem is modified in order to carry the extra semantic information of theaffectedpatientand specifies the affected bodypart.
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On average, eachaffectedpatienthad more than one dysmorphic zygote.
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The averaged responses for the six eccentricities show a great amplitude reduction in the moreaffectedpatient.
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We have seen nothing to suggest that awareness of the target payments scheme for cervical cytology and childhood immunisation hasaffectedpatientconfidence in doctors' clinical diagnosis.
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I am advised that financial shortages in the district concerned have led to attempts to close wards at both general and mental hospitals, which againaffectedpatientcare.
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Advances in imaging technologies allow for early detection and thus ample treatment and monitoring of theaffectedpatient.
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This delusion occurs most frequently in patients with dementia and anaffectedpatientmaintains the ability to recognize others reflections in the mirror.
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There is one known case of anaffectedpatientwith only one parent who is a carrier.
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The hallmark sign of pseudocyesis that is common to all cases is that theaffectedpatientis convinced that she is pregnant.
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The disease has only one knownaffectedpatient, diagnosed in 1999.
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When such extensive neurological damage occurs, theaffectedpatientrelies on non-facial cues to identify relatives.
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But for the mildly affected patients there may well be under-ascertainment, and to the extent of this there is no clue.
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The affected patients have a rare ultrastructural defect of intermittent absence of the ciliary central pair microtubules.
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Furthermore, emergency-room physicians might have treated affected patients without confirming the causative pathogen.
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There are a small number of affected patients and several studies have a relatively short length of median follow-up.
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Screening for hereditary hemochromatosis in siblings and children of affected patients.
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