attending
/əˈtɛndɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.31 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
adj
Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
adj
noun
A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."