cyberpatient

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + patient.

  1. derived from *peh₁- — “to hate, hurt
  2. derived from patiens
  3. derived from pacient
  4. derived from patient
  5. inherited from pacient
  6. prefixed as cyberpatient — “cyber + patient

Definitions

  1. A patient who receives medical diagnosis by means of a computer network.

    • Explicit medical videos are among the exceptions, allowing cyberpatients and other viewers 18 and over to watch videos of colonoscopies, appendectomies and open-heart surgery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyberpatient. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA