(a.) Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
(n.) An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(2) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(3) A rise in lactate dehydrogenase levels consonant with the amount of hemolysis is observed.
(4) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(5) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
(6) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(7) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
(8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(9) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(10) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
(11) Empowerment may be found through a moral economy grounded in use value appropriate to advanced industrial society that is consonant with Gramsci's new hegemony.
(12) The changes observed following exposure of HUVEC to heparin are consonant with the view that glycosaminoglycans may affect endothelial production of fibrinolytic components.
(13) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(14) Unlike intact acidotic and glucocorticoid-supplemented ADX acidotic rats, glutamine extraction was disassociated from the delivered glutamine load consonant with the role of glucocorticoid in coupling cellular glutamine transport to its metabolic utilization.
(15) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(16) Minimal pairs differing only in the voicing feature of the initial consonant were produced by four SLI and four language-matched NL children.
(17) Variation of the reaction rate with substrate concentration suggests a diffusion-limited process, consonant with the fact that enzyme and substrate are associated with particles of enormous sizes (the fat cell and the lipid droplet, respectively).
(18) The implant provided information about the amplitude envelope of the speech and the estimated frequency of the main spectral peak between 800 and 4000 Hz, which was useful for consonant recognition.
(19) Generalization data indicated that the child learned 16 word-initial consonants following treatment of only three sets of maximal opposition contrasts.
(20) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
Liaison
Definition:
(n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(2) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(3) Since 1987 consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists in Europe have decided to develop a closer collaboration to stimulate the development of the C-L field.
(4) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(5) Today, in answer to questions from MPs on the Commons liaison committee, David Cameron said he would back the bank.
(6) To offer these individuals the optimum result, it is mandatory to have close liaison with an orthodontic colleague.
(7) A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said: "We are in liaison with the US authorities.
(8) Ahmed Chinoy, head of the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, asked.
(9) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
(10) Subsequent to the questionnaire the PCCU liaison pharmacist implemented a visual display of monthly drug costs, an education program that included the presentation of questionnaire results, and drug information lectures discussing controversial therapeutic issues.
(11) This article was amended on 5 January 2016 to clarify that the US Fish and Wildlife Service is leading the crisis management reaction to the occupation in liaison with the FBI.
(12) The results indicate that a POC may serve a specific and definable segment of patients, whose characteristics depart from the clinical populations in consultation-liaison psychiatry and medical-psychiatric units.
(13) Perinatal care in rural areas could be improved by: 1) transforming underequipped rural maternity units into centers where pregnancies can be properly monitored; 2) avoiding the transportation of a premature baby by moving the mother prior to delivery to a properly equipped center; and 3) providing for effective liaison between rural maternity services and fully equipped maternal health centers.
(14) Prior literature suggested that psychiatric liaison on medical wards would produce a more positive attitude towards psychiatry, more psychosocial chart documentation, and a higher consultation request rate.
(15) A retrospective review of the records of 755 patients seen by a psychiatric consultation-liaison service in a general hospital was performed.
(16) The authors present the results of a one-year study showing equivalent mastery of basic psychiatric knowledge and skills and equally favorable student reactions after psychiatry clerkships on a consultation-liaison service and on other more traditional psychiatry services.
(17) The walk that will always stay in my mind is one that I enjoyed with my climbing partner Paul Ramsden and our liaison officer, Dawa, after we had made the first ascent of beautiful Manamcho (6,264m) in the Nyainqentanglha East range of eastern Tibet.
(18) The individual experiences of the authors as fellows in consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychobiology, and sleep disorders medicine are described.
(19) Celebrity endorsement is the super- weapon of modern humanitarianism – three-quarters of Britain's 30 largest charities (excluding housing and care trusts) have full-time celebrity liaison managers to ease the celebrities on and off aeroplanes in and out of hell.
(20) The number of hospital orders made at the court increased fourfold after the liaison scheme began.