WordNet
n. a male hospital attendant who has general non-medical duties [syn: orderly]
Usage examples of "hospital attendant".
After them came a white-jacketed hospital attendant wheeling in, of all things, a portable TV!
My head cleared and it was very plain that he was simply a lower-class consumer-perhaps a hospital attendant?
A male hospital attendant, with a foreign accent, relayed those words to us via tele.
A male hospital attendant, with a foreign accent, relayed those words to us via telephone.
Frightened by the sight of death and the moment of possible resolution, the two men moved with trepidation toward the tables where a hospital attendant stood waiting to show them the corpses.
On reaching the building we marched up on a little balcony, and as we did so each one of us was seized by a hospital attendant, who, with the quick dexterity attained by long practice, snatched every one of our filthy, lousy rags off in the twinkling of an eye, and flung them over the railing to the ground, where a man loaded them into a wagon with a pitchfork.
At two-thirty, after a wait which Lars would not have undergone again at any price, the carbon-dating of the tissue taken from the old man's body was brought in by a hospital attendant.
Malley always nursed the old man along with this half comforting, half chiding manner of a mental hospital attendant.
He paused, looking down, then with his thumbs and forefingers lifted and folded back the sheet, perhaps a foot, one neat fold, the economical gesture of a hospital attendant.
Two gray-haired men got out, and a hefty fellow who was no doubt a hospital attendant.