(v. i.) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
(v. t.) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.
(v. t.) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
(v. t.) To deliberate upon; to take for.
(v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
(n.) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.
(n.) A council; a meeting for consultation.
(n.) Agreement; concert
Example Sentences:
(1) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(2) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(3) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(4) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(5) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
(6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(7) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(8) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(9) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(10) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(11) Instead, we suffer sporadic exhibitions, which they call consultation.
(12) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(13) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(14) Treatment with the antithyroid drug had been discontinued by herself when she was 19 years old until she was 24 years old, when she was pregnant and consulted our hospital.
(15) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(16) 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.
(17) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(18) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
(19) Radiographs were taken with bones placed in up to four of the common sites of impaction and assessed on two occasions independently by two previously uninvolved ENT consultants.
(20) While it is important not to overstate the case from the relatively small number of people consulted, they do represent a diverse range of adult social care service users from different areas in England .
Discussion
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
(n.) The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(4) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(5) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(6) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(7) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(8) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(9) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(10) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(11) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(12) A possible role for mitochondria in myocardial adenosine production is discussed.
(13) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(14) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
(15) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(16) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(17) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(18) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(19) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
(20) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.