unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune

anorectic, anorexic - a person suffering from anorexia nervosa

bulimic - a person suffering from bulimia

consumptive, lunger - a person with pulmonary tuberculosis

convalescent - a person who is recovering from illness

depressive - someone suffering psychological depression

diabetic - someone who has diabetes

dyspeptic - a person suffering from indigestion

epileptic - a person who has epilepsy

bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac - someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding

incurable - a person whose disease is incurable

insomniac, sleepless person - someone who cannot sleep

invalid, shut-in - someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury

lazar, leper - a person afflicted with leprosy

lunatic, madman, maniac - an insane person

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

monomaniac - a person suffering from monomania

narcoleptic - a person who has narcolepsy

neurasthenic - a person suffering a nervous breakdown

mental case, neurotic, psychoneurotic - a person suffering from neurosis

patient - a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"

psycho, psychotic, psychotic person - a person afflicted with psychosis

rheumatic - a person suffering with rheumatism

syphilitic - a person suffering from syphilis

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

spewer, vomiter - a person who vomits

shaheed - Arabic term for holy martyrs; applied by Palestinians to suicide bombers

victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

Tindal, Tindale, Tyndale, William Tindal, William Tindale, William Tyndale - English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)