(v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
(v. i.) To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.
(n.) Advantage; behoof.
Example Sentences:
(1) It behooves any physician who uses these powerful agents to be aware of the potential complications and side effects.
(2) It behooves us all to help contain rising medical costs.
(3) It behooves the psychiatrist to frankly reveal the risks of pregnancy to couples who wish to have a child or to advise about the pregnancy to term so they can make an informed decision.
(4) This case demonstrates that it behooves us to maintain a high level of awareness for potential cervical spine problems in all rheumatoid arthritis patients.
(5) It behooves the doctor to try to deal as effectively as possible with the symptoms and behavioral responses to litigation because of the subtle impact such changes have on doctor-patient relationships and patient care.
(6) It behooves all practising histopathologists to recognise these mimics of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease to ensure appropriate management for patients with inflammatory pathology of the intestines.
(7) Since the operation can be performed with greater technical efficiency without a shunt and without the potential complications of shunting itself, it behooves the surgeon to have a reliable method of knowing when it is not required.
(8) It behooves all physicians operating in this area and emergency room physicians and personnel to be acquainted with the diagnosis and management of these situations.
(9) It behooves all phys-cians caring for young women to be aware of these disease processes for the maximum therapeutic benefit to be achieved.
(10) It behooves librarians to be aware of modern management theory, as developed and tested in the environment of business, and to adopt such useful tools as operations analysis and the systems approach to problems in the library environment.
(11) Qualified and desperate young people are walking dollar signs to a cash-strapped industry, and it would behoove universities to endow their graduates with knowledge of their legal entitlements before turfing them out of the nest into a wilderness of financial precarity and un- or under-employment.
(12) It behooves all clinicians to look at all the options available in treating the adult so these patients can benefit most from our services.
(13) The applications of color flow mapping, a new and rapidly evolving technology, are still in their infancy, and it behooves the pediatric cardiologist to evolve in his expertise along with the evolution of the instrumentation toward new and important impacts which these imaging methods will have in the health care of children with heart disease.
(14) Thus it behooves dermatologists to study the basic biologic process of aging in the skin and the separable process of photoaging, which itself is a major clinical problem.
(15) It behooves us in the mental health field, having vociferously supported the community mental health movement, to assist police in the management of the mentally ill who are now in the community, perhaps by the use of mobile crisis intervention teams and by a considerably increased amount of effort and cooperation.
(16) Thus, with this understanding, it behooves us as nurses to intervene accordingly and "decode" the hallucinated messages and thereby assist in breaking into the third stage in the evolutionary cycle of a psychosis, as cited by R.D.
(17) It behooves those centers providing investigative protocol opportunities to develop liaisons with practicing physicians nearby as well as at some distance and to provide an organizational framework that will make participation in these protocols practical for a larger segment of our brain-tumor patient population.
(18) It behooves all clinical laboratory directors to re-examine and standardize their procedures and use the recommendations of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
(19) With recent changes in the management of carcinoma of the breast and a population that is increasingly aging, it behooves us to determine the most appropriate treatment of carcinoma of the breast in the elderly.
(20) As surgeons, we are behooved to look, assess, and reconsider in order to improve.
Behove
Definition:
(v.) and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.;
Example Sentences:
(1) "First, my love," said Mr Darcy, who had become increasingly uxorious over time, "it behoves us to run through the back story for those who are not up to speed with the original.
(2) It's hard to describe [why] because "down-to-earth" usually describes someone who acts more humble than they actually are - because they know that it behoves them to not be an asshole!'
(3) It might behove the congregation to bow its head occasionally in silent contemplation.
(4) "Indeed she can," replied Mr Darcy, "for in these times it behoves a brother to allow his sister to marry for love.
(5) It behoves us to briefly review the clinical features of this condition while presenting the case report.
(6) It surely behoves us as a society to retain those deaths with respect and a degree of reverence.
(7) Those families in which an infant suffers an 'apparently life threatening event' deserve immense understanding and help, and it behoves investigators to exercise extreme care and self criticism in the presentation of new knowledge which may bear upon their management and their morale.
(8) When he was good, he was very good indeed, as behoves one of the best actors of his generation - a performer of real substance, power and sophistication.
(9) But if sustainable products are to win a piece of the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, it behoves their manufacturers to create something that people want to buy at a price they are willing (and able) to pay.
(10) Asked if there was widespread “cooking of the books”, he added “I am not aware [of it] other than in isolated cases where there is evidence, but the fact there is evidence in a couple of cases behoves us to have a look”.
(11) It behoves workers in all countries which have a significant grazing livestock industry, not only those with an existing resistance problem, to consider how such schemes could be implemented.
(12) However, if she can understand it but wants to employ populist rhetoric just to boost her anti-City credentials for the sake of a cheap dig at the markets, then it ill behoves her to dumb herself down in such a see-through fashion.
(13) It ill behoves him to talk about mismanagement of projects.
(14) "I fear great dishonour has been brought on to the Pemberley estate by a murder, and yet I must ensure my upper lip remains stiff as behoves a man of my class.
(15) To avoid potential hazards it behoves the anaesthetist to remain alert to the possibility of the undiagnosed disease.