- allergic
- anemic
- apoplectic
- arthritic
- bedridden invalid
- bilious
- cachectic
- cancerous
- case
- chlorotic
- cloistered monk
- colicky
- consumptive
- crib
- desert fathers
- Diogenes
- disastrous
- dropsical
- dyspeptic
- edematous
- encephalitic
- epileptic
- failing
- fatal
- frail
- healthless
- hermit
- incurable
- inpatient
- invalid
- isolationist
- languishing
- laryngitic
- leprous
- loner
- luetic
- malarial
- malignant
- measly
- nephritic
- neuralgic
- neuritic
- outpatient
- palsied
- paralytic
- pariah
- patient
- phthisic
- pillarist
- pleuritic
- pneumonic
- pocky
- podagric
- rachitic
- reduced in health
- rheumatic
- rickety
- scorbutic
- scrofulous
- shut-in
- sickly
- sick person
- solitaire
- solitary
- spastic
- stay-at-home
- sufferer
- tabetic
- tabid
- terminal case
- the sick
- Timon of Athens
- tubercular
- tuberculous
- tumorigenic
- tumorous
- valetudinarian
- valetudinary
- victim
- weakened
- wrap