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 term feeling is a verbal noun denoting the action of the verb to feel, which derives etymologically from the Middle English verb felen, âto perceive by touch, by palpation.â It soon came to mean, more generally, to perceive through those senses that are not referred to any special organ.