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Definition of Nursing

1. Noun. The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm.

2. Noun. The profession of a nurse.

3. Noun. Nourishing at the breast.

Definition of Nursing

1. a. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

Definition of Nursing

1. Adjective. In the state of suckling young, lactating. ¹

2. Adjective. Referring to nurses. ¹

3. Noun. breastfeeding ¹

4. Noun. The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse. ¹

5. Verb. (present participle of nurse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nursing

1. the profession of one who nurses [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nursing

1. Profession (better known than defined) concerned with the provision of services essential to the maintenance and restoration of health by attending the needs of sick persons. Also, feeding a infant at the breast. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursing

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Literary usage of Nursing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"The private practicing physician says it is paying nursing visits to the sick and aiding their recovery, the prevention of death, or other serious ..."

2. Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents (1993)
"Hospital and nursing-Home Care Eligibility for VA hospital care and ... VA must provide hospital care and may provide nursing-home care to veterans in the ..."

3. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"23p '20 Nurses and nursing of nurses. On nursing: practical information for high school girls. 16p '19 nursing problem as related to psychopathol- ogy. ..."

4. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1903)
"COSGRAVE (EM) Hints and helps for home nursing, pp. 143. Lond. 1895. 16°. 7688. a. 46. ... Obstetrical nursing. See OBSTETRICS. Profession of nursing. ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"THE two volumes prepared by Miss Nutting and Miss Dock comprise an exceedingly interesting account of nursing from the earliest available records to the ..."

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