DISEASED PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diseased person mean? 

• DISEASED PERSON (noun)
  The noun DISEASED PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person suffering from an illness

  Familiarity information: DISEASED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISEASED PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from an illness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diseased person; sick person; sufferer

Hypernyms ("diseased person" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diseased person"):

lazar; leper (a person afflicted with leprosy)

spewer; vomiter (a person who vomits)

valetudinarian (weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health)

syphilitic (a person suffering from syphilis)

rheumatic (a person suffering with rheumatism)

psycho; psychotic; psychotic person (a person afflicted with psychosis)

patient (a person who requires medical care)

mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic (a person suffering from neurosis)

neurasthenic (a person suffering a nervous breakdown)

narcoleptic (a person who has narcolepsy)

monomaniac (a person suffering from monomania)

manic-depressive (a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness)

lunatic; madman; maniac (an insane person)

anorectic; anorexic (a person suffering from anorexia nervosa)

invalid; shut-in (someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury)

insomniac; sleepless person (someone who cannot sleep)

incurable (a person whose disease is incurable)

bleeder; haemophile; haemophiliac; hemophile; hemophiliac (someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding)

epileptic (a person who has epilepsy)

dyspeptic (a person suffering from indigestion)

diabetic (someone who has diabetes)

depressive (someone suffering psychological depression)

convalescent (a person who is recovering from illness)

consumptive; lunger; tubercular (a person with pulmonary tuberculosis)

bulimic (a person suffering from bulimia)