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attending en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /əˈtɛndɪŋ/

Etymology

From attend + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
  2. (not-comparable) Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
  3. (not-comparable) Attendant, concomitant.
    • Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies. 1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:

Deriveds

unattending · attendingly · nonattending

Translations (5)

es asistente (that attend(s), attendant) · pt presencia (that attend(s), attendant) · pt assistir (serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor) · grc ἀκόλουθος (that attend(s), attendant) · pt participa (that attend(s), attendant)

attending en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /əˈtɛndɪŋ/

Etymology

From attend + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
    • 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. 2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45:
    • 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. 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:
    • She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.

Forms

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attendings Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

resident doctor · resident

Hypernyms

physician · person · doctor

Translations (3)

id DPJP (physician on the staff of a hospital) · de Oberarzt (physician on the staff of a hospital) · id dokter penanggung jawab pelayanan (physician on the staff of a hospital)

wikidata: Q460628

attending en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /əˈtɛndɪŋ/

Etymology

From attend + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of attend
    form of attend