clinical trial
67
3.9
- noun
- /ˈklɪnɪkəl traɪəl/
- Specialized
:
ensayo clínico
- Many patients are eager to participate in a clinical trial for the latest cancer treatment.
- randomized clinical trials
- a randomized clinical trial
- a controlled clinical trial
the VA system has its own medical research clinical trials support system.
- the VA system has its own medical research clinical trials support system.
- It's a national set of sites that can perform clinical trials for stroke and stroke recovery.
- So we've got a couple of small pilot clinical trials.
- Then we did the human clinical trial with this prolonged fasting mimicking diet.
- In September, we had surprising but exciting findings from a clinical trial that took place in Thailand.
- Right now, we're still in clinical trials, inconclusive.
- And the most promising of these microbial fake poop pills was tried in a clinical trial recently and failed.
- And so as I say, there's, there's three or four large randomized phase three style clinical trials starting now.
- And I've never forgotten that the cheapest clinical trial is the one where everyone dies.
- So we have an active clinical trial where?
- And so I'm doing clinical trials or helping people do clinical trials.
Examples
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Currently, drug research is mainly done in clinical trials by testing human subjects.
Academic text (2008) -
They ran a clinical trial in that lab, on humans.
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All you have to do is look at the clinical trial data.
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We're glad you got him into the clinical trial.
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We're just now seeing the first clinical trial in New York and San Diego.
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This is starting clinical trials now to see if it works.
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You know, to our surprise, actually the clinical trial is not that linear.
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Have you any idea if they found out the costs of the clinical trials?
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In September, we had surprising but exciting findings from a clinical trial that took place in Thailand.
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They've had clinical trials and it's FDA approved.
Synonyms
291
3.4
A test to see how well something works
3
3.7
A carefully controlled study giving a new medicine or device to people to see if it is safe and works
How Rigorous
- Specialized
1
5.3
- Specialized
67
3.9
- Specialized
- Specialized
15
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'clinical' (relating to patient care or medical settings) combined with 'trial' (a testing or study): together they denote a study conducted in a clinical/patient context. This compositional noun-noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English naming, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The compound clinical trial combines clinical (from 'clinic', a place where doctors see patients) and trial (a 'test'). So, it means 'a careful medical study' done to check safety and how well a treatment works.