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Definition of Attending

1. Noun. The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others.

2. Noun. The act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.).

Definition of Attending

1. Adjective. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor. ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of attend) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Attending

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Attending

1. In psychology, an aroused readiness to percieve, as in listening or looking; focusing of sense organs is sometimes involved. Origin: L. Attendo, to bend to, notice (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attending

attendancies attendancy attendant attendants attendaunce attendaunt attended attendedness attendee attendees

attendement attender attenders attendest attendeth attending attending physician attending staff attending surgeon attendings

attendment attendments attends attent attentat attentats attention attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder attention-getting attention-grabbing

Literary usage of Attending

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

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"RALPH C. HAMILL, MD, Assistant Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Northwestern University Medical School; Attending Neurologist, Cook County Hospital ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"After attending during the following three or four years a private school at Llanelly, he was ordained • of the churches of Hermon and Tabor, near Llandilo. ..."

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