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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
multidisciplinary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
▪ Most of the text is devoted to a multidisciplinary approach to various pelvic-floor disorders.
▪ A multidisciplinary approach to pest management is essential.
▪ When it comes to cancer, a multidisciplinary approach is often the most successful.
assessment
▪ From this starting point, the purpose of multidisciplinary assessment becomes the assessment of quality of life and risk.
▪ More complex needs will call for multidisciplinary assessments, careful preparation, and time for patients to consider their future.
▪ Each of the four areas achieved a different level of success in the development of a system of multidisciplinary assessment.
team
▪ He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984.
▪ Member of the multidisciplinary team Primary nurses aim to establish an emotionally therapeutic relationship with their patients based on trust and confidence.
▪ In learning organisations, employees form multidisciplinary teams.
▪ Treatment is best undertaken in a specialist unit with a dedicated multidisciplinary team skilled in dealing with anorexic behaviours.
▪ Developing managerial skills in nurses will make them more equal and effective members of the multidisciplinary team. 3.
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▪ From this starting point, the purpose of multidisciplinary assessment becomes the assessment of quality of life and risk.
▪ He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984.
▪ More complex needs will call for multidisciplinary assessments, careful preparation, and time for patients to consider their future.
▪ Most of the text is devoted to a multidisciplinary approach to various pelvic-floor disorders.
▪ Nutritional care audits may be performed independently or as part of a multidisciplinary effort.
▪ Some patients may benefit from a stress management programme, while severe cases may require the multidisciplinary services of a pain clinic.
▪ The multidisciplinary approach to neural networks is exciting.
▪ The emphasis in the programme will be on the problems and requirements of using computational and multidisciplinary approaches to further this objective.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
multidisciplinary

also multi-disciplinary, 1949, from multi- + disciplinary.

Wiktionary
multidisciplinary

a. Relating to multiple areas of study.

Usage examples of "multidisciplinary".

Communications Biophysics Laboratory, a new multidisciplinary venture organized by Walter Kosenblith, an Austrian-born engineer who came to MIT from Harvard in 1951.

Lavery created a multidisciplinary approach to his issue, so the other departments could each get a piece of his very large and quite delicious pie.