Case
Patient
Patient noun - An individual awaiting or under medical care and treatment.
Usage example: the nurse asked the patient to change into a paper gown
Case is a synonym for patient in sick person topic. You can use "Case" instead a noun "Patient", if it concerns topics such as action, invalid, person being treated for medical problem.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- In an episode of Psych Shawn breaks a patient out of a mental hospital to stop him from receiving electric-shock treatment and as part of a plan to clear the patient's name in a murder case.
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That he encouraged Linda Lovara's madness while she was his patient really doesn't help his case. Punctuated!
Source: Video Game / Criminal Case - In the House episode "All In", House chases the medical case that he was never able to solve: a young boy comes in exhibiting the same symptoms as a patient House earlier lost.
Source: That One Case
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Patient and Case. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/case/patient
Case & Patient. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/case/patient>.
Patient or Case. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/case/patient.
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