nursing
noun
[ ˈnəːsɪŋ ]
• the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm.
• "not enough people are entering nursing"
nursing
adjective
• (of a mother) breastfeeding a baby.
• "nursing mothers need to replace lost fluids"
nurse
verb
• give medical and other attention to (a sick person).
• "he was gradually nursed back to health"
Similar:
care for,
take care of,
look after,
tend,
attend to,
minister to,
• feed (a baby) at the breast.
• "the women nursed their babies"
• try to play strokes which keep (the balls) close together.
Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of earlier nourice, from Old French, from late Latin nutricia, feminine of Latin nutricius ‘(person) that nourishes’, from nutrix, nutric- ‘nurse’, from nutrire ‘nourish’. The verb was originally a contraction of nourish, altered under the influence of the noun.
