consents

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of consent.

   He consents to the proposal on the condition that the timeline stays fixed.

   A patient who consents to a trial may still withdraw at any point.

   Note

   This is the present-tense form for he, she, it or any single subject, and other persons take plain consent. It usually takes to (consents to the proposal). In clinical paperwork it can also be transitive, with a direct object and no to: a nurse who consents a patient is getting that patient to sign a consent form. It is worth recognizing, since the patient there is not the one agreeing on their own initiative.

   The research nurse consents each participant before the first blood draw.

   Whoever consents the patient must witness the signature.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of consent.

   The lawyer filed all the necessary consents with the court that morning.

   Multiple written consents are required before the research can proceed.

   Note

   The plural belongs to the countable side of the noun. Each permission is counted as a separate act or a signed form, the kind a lawyer files or a research team collects. Consent in the sense of agreement in general is uncountable and needs no plural. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb, so a consents you can count, as in all the consents or three consents, is the noun.

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