attending

1. not comparableThat attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
2. not comparableServing on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
3. not comparableAttendant, concomitant.

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   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.

   1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6

plural attendings

1. CanadaUSA 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.

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   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.

   2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45

   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.

   2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of attend