Definition of "sick person" [sick person]

• A person suffering from an illness (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "St. Pius V decreed that no physician should receive the doctorate unless he took oath not to visit a sick person longer than three days without calling a confessor, unless there was some reasonable excuse."
• "Unnecesary (although slight) noise injures a sick person much more than necessary noise (of a much greater amount)."
• "Just as it is necessary to renew the air round a sick person frequently, to carry off morbid effluvia from the lungs and skin, by maintaining free ventilation, so is it necessary to keep the pores of the skin free from all obstructing excretions."