To sign patient in ASL, as in a person under medical care, make a P handshape with your dominant hand. Bring it across the body to the front of the opposite shoulder and make a short movement there, then draw the hand back across the chest. This is the medical meaning of patient.
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How to sign it
Handshape: P, the index finger up and the middle finger pointing forward, with the thumb touching the middle finger.
Location: the front of the opposite shoulder.
Movement: a short movement at the shoulder, then the hand draws back across the chest.
Use it in a sentence
WOMAN PATIENT.
The woman is a patient.
Lifeprint describes this medical sign as a small cross made on the shoulder with a P handshape. For patient meaning able to wait calmly, ASL uses a different sign made at the chin.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/p/patient.htm.
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