attending
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Adjective edit
attending (not comparable)
- That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
- Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
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that attend(s), attendant
Noun edit
attending (plural attendings)
- (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
- 2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45:
- All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.
- 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times[1]:
- All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.
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Verb edit
attending
- present participle and gerund of attend