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bedside manners

bedside manners is the plural of bedside manner.

Meaning of bedside manner

Noun

bedside manner (countable and uncountable, plural bedside manners)

  1. The ability of a doctor, medic, nurse, or other healthcare professional, to interact with their patients; the quality or nature of their interactive style.
    • In physic, a graceful Lord Charles, with a sweet bedside manner, might be very formidable; and, by degrees, the awkwardness of the fee might be got over. [Quoting the Edinburgh Review.]1848 July 29, Thomas Wakley, editor, The Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature and News, volume II, London: Printed for the editor, and...

Questions about bedside manners

What is bedside manners the plural of?
Bedside manners is the plural of bedside manner.

Words near bedside manners in the dictionary

  1. bedsheeting
  2. bedsheetings
  3. bedsheets
  4. bedside
  5. bedside manner
  6. bedside manners
  7. bedside sleeper
  8. bedside table
  9. bedside tables
  10. bedsides
  11. bedsit

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