Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Canada, US)A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

    She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.

    Oberarzt

More definitions
  • the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)
  • the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

Translations

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Deutsch
By meaning 1
physician on the staff of a hospital:

Origin

From attend + -ing.

From attend + -ing.

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Forms

plural: attendings
Singularattending
Pluralattendings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.):attendance
  • the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others:attention

See also

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