consulting roomnoun [ C ]
uk/kənˈsʌl.tɪŋ ˌruːm/us/kənˈsʌl.t̬ɪŋ ˌruːm/UKan office where a doctor talks to and examines patients
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- Mrs. Jenkins, a regular visitor in the doctor's consulting room, started on the long story of her troubles.
- The consulting room is well supplied with medicines.
- The old doctor treated me so strangely, that I often felt inclined to run out of the consulting room.
- The room into which they had been shown was his consulting room, furnished in the simplest fashion—almost shabbily.
- They are the types most commonly seen in the hospital clinic or in the private consulting room of the neurologist.