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clinical test

clinical test

3 3.7
A carefully controlled study giving a new medicine or device to people to see if it is safe and works
  • noun
  • /ˈklɪnɪkəl tɛst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : prueba clínica
  • In the third part of the AFMA Program, comprehensive, carefully controlled clinical tests of the CASD/CAM systems were performed.
  • clinical tests show
  • conducting clinical tests
  • standard clinical tests

That's why many of the drug, the passive drug efficacy tests in preclinical animal studies failed in the clinical test.

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Examples

  • In the carefully controlled clinical tests conducted under the AFMA Program, CASD/CAM sockets were designed, fabricated, and fitted on 90 subjects.

    Academic text (1992)

  • To summarize, sensorimotor impairments can cause a variety of symptoms, and clinical tests are available to help determine the problem and potential solutions.

    Blog text (30)

  • Yet few studies have reported on the frequency of clinical test use in the measurement of anxiety.

    Academic text (2009)

  • I challenge LifePharm to provide information on their clinical tests for independent review.

    Blog text (28)

  • The next steps are to confirm curcumin's beneficial effects in controlled clinical tests.

    Blog text (10)

  • The earliest prototype of the retinal prosthesis is already in clinical tests.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The most useful clinical test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis continues to be the PPD skin test (Figure 1).

    Academic text (1995)

  • Under current policy, the FDA requires that companies report genetic information gathered in clinical tests under certain circumstances, but refers only to "well-established" genetic factors in its regulatory decisions.

    Academic text (2006)

  • One of the issues CLIA certification is designed to solve is the accuracy and consistency of clinical tests, regardless of which facility they were performed in.

    Blog text (30)

  • The researchers conducted a series of rigorous clinical tests to evaluate the new drug's effectiveness and safety.

Synonyms

clinical trial
vsclinical test
  • Specialized
67 3.9

A controlled test with people to see if a new medicine is safe and works

focuses on rigorous preapproval testing before general medical use

How Systematic

clinical test
  • Specialized
3 3.7
heuristic
  • Specialized
3 8.0
guesswork
20 4.2

Surface Forms

clinical test singular
clinical tests plural

Morphology

clinical + test

The meaning is directly built from 'clinical' (relating to medical care or patient treatment) + 'test' (an examination or trial), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a medical/test carried out with patients or in a clinical setting. While the full technical sense (rigorous controlled trials, regulatory phases) is specialized, the basic idea is compositional and cross-linguistically regular, making it immediately understandable to learners.

Etymology

Clinical test comes from doing a controlled test inside a medical clinic, where doctors give a new medicine to real patients and watch the results carefully. So, it now means an official trial with people to check if a treatment is 'safe' and 'effective'.