Monitoring of the liver tests depends on the degree, the duration, and the cause of the abnormality. For example, in a person who has chronic (long standing) hepatitis B or C infection, the liver specialist (hepatologist) may opt for surveillance of these levels every 3 to 6 months to ensure that they are not rising.
Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: 1  consciousness(noun) an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation. he lost consciousness. 2  awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness(noun) having knowledge of.
The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning  breath , but also spirit, soul, courage, vigor, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)peis.It is distinguished from Latin anima,  soul  (which nonetheless also derives from an Indo-European root meaning to breathe, earliest form *h2enh1-). Spirit, in this sense, means the thing that separates a living body from a corpseâand usually implies intelligence, consciousness, and sentience. 2  Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith Jr. taught that the concept of spirit as incorporeal or without substance was incorrect: There is no such thing as immaterial matter.