N-PLURAL [usually with poss](尤指对身体虚弱或生病之人的)服务,照顾,服侍 A person's ministrations are the things they do to help or care for someone in a particular situation, especially someone who is weak or ill. (尤指对身体虚弱或生病之人的)服务,照顾,服侍 [humorous, or literary]
...the tender ministrations of the buxom woman who cut his hair.