Attending

Quick meaning: Attending is an adjective meaning That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.

Meaning

That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.

More Meanings

1. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
2. Attendant, concomitant.
3. (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
4. present participle and gerund of attend

Example Sentences

She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• attendings

Synonyms for attending

Depending on context, synonyms include present, helpful, ministrant, attention, attendance, ministering.

Antonyms for attending

Common opposites include inattention, nonattendance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attendance, helpful, ministering, ministrant, attention, present.

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