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Attending or Primary Physician

Attending or Primary Physician

The doctor who has the main responsibility for your care while you are in the hospital. There may be other doctors caring for you such as consulting doctors, resident doctors, and medical students.

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Doctor
1. One whose occupation is to treat diseases, particularly a physician, dentist, or veterinarian with an appropriate license. 2. A teacher (particularly at a college or university), a scholar, or one who holds a postgraduate degree (especially a Ph.D. degree). 3. A shaman.

Resident
A medical doctor who has completed medical school and internship, and is receiving training in a specialized area. Completion of a residency program is required for board certification in a medical or surgical specialty.

Medical
Pertaining to Medicine.

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Attending physician
The doctor who is primarily responsible for a patient's care.

Attention
The ability to focus in a sustained manner on a particular stimulus or activity. A disturbance in attention may be manifested by easy distractibility or difficulty in finishing tasks or in concentrating on work.

Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
An inability to control behavior due to difficulty in processing neural stimuli.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
A behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Although most individuals have symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, one or the other pattern may be predominant. The disorder is more frequent in males than females. Onset is in childhood. Symptoms often attenuate during late adolescence although a minority experience the full complement of symptoms into mid-adulthood.

Attentional
Relating to attention. The term is used in psychology and child development as, for example, early television exposure has been found to be associated with attentional problems at age 7.

Attenuate
To weaken, dilute, thin, reduce, weaken, diminish.

Attenuated
Weakened, diluted, thinned, reduced, weakened, diminished.

Attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis
An inherited predisposition to colorectal cancer characterized by fewer than 100 adenomatous polyps in the colon and rectum. It is said to be attenuated because there are fewer polyps than in classic familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). People with attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis (AFAP) also tend to be older at the diagnosis of their polyps (average age of 44 years) and cancer (average age of 56 years), 10 to 15 years later than in classic FAP. The right side of the colon tends to be involved in AFAP and rectal involvement is rare. AFAP is transmitted in an autosomal dominant manner.

Attenuated FAP
Attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis.

Attenuated virus
"To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. Now ""attenuate"" refers to procedures that weaken an agent of disease (a pathogen). An attenuated virus is a weakened, less vigorous virus. A vaccine against a viral disease can be made from an attenuated, less virulent strain of the virus, a virus capable of stimulating an immune response and creating immunity but not causing illness."

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Atheroma:
Large build-up of fat, cholesterol and other substances on the walls of an artery, causing narrowing. Also called plaque.

Atrial fibrillation (AF)
Atrial fibrillation is an irregular heart rhythm in which many impulses begin and spread through the atria. The resulting rhythm is disorganized, rapid and irregular and the atria are not able to fully empty their contents into the ventricles.

Atrial Myxoma
A myxoma is a tumor of the heart. It resides in the atrial chamber and causes symptoms when its growth produces a tumor so large it obstructs blood flow through the heart chambers.

Atrioventricular (AV) node
A center of special cells located near the center of the heart that helps to regulate the heart rhythm. Here, the electrical current slows for a moment before going on to the ventricles.

Attending or Primary Physician

Argentinian doctor
A doctor who, being or not a citizen of that country, has been admitted to practice medicine in Argentina.

Andorra doctor
A doctor who, being or not a citizen of that country, has been admitted to practice medicine in Andorra.

Austrian doctor
A doctor who, being or not a citizen of that country, has been admitted to practice medicine in Austria.

Australian doctor
A doctor who, being or not a citizen of that country, has been admitted to practice medicine in Australia.

Aussie doctor
A doctor who, being or not a citizen of that country, has been admitted to practice medicine in Australia.

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