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nonclinical

nonclinical

1 6.0
Not involving direct medical care, often used for research or administration
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈklɪnɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no clínico
  • The task is particularly difficult for promotion and prevention programs because participants are recruited from nonclinical community samples.
  • nonclinical samples
  • nonclinical staff
  • nonclinical populations

Examples

  • A long research tradition has examined depression both within nonclinical populations and across clinical and normal subject groups.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Scores on these three scales show close to normal distributions in nonclinical samples of both men and women.

    Academic text (2004)

  • To my knowledge, there have not been any published accounts of the clinical or nonclinical use of family drawing procedures.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Negative responders included both clinical and nonclinical participants.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Such methods are particularly important for those students who remain unidentified or experience notably high, though nonclinical, levels of anxiety.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Both depression and eating disturbances are investigated in a nonclinical sample.

    Academic text (1996)

  • In the current study, we examined the relationship between societal factors and body image in a nonclinical sample of Australian women.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Using a matched group design would help answer the question regarding the generalizability of our findings to nonclinical samples.

    Academic text (2005)

  • An analysis of the family drawings of a nonclinical sample of 502 Barbadian children aged 7-11 years is reported.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Research in psychology often focuses on nonclinical populations to understand behavior outside of medical settings.

Synonyms

nonmedical
vsnonclinical
2 4.2

Not about doctors or hospitals

is narrower, used for research, administration, or demonstration without patient care

Antonyms

clinical
  • Specialized
196 4.2

About a medical clinic or based on observing and treating patients

How Clinical

therapeutic
87 5.2
clinical
  • Specialized
196 4.2
observational
27 5.0
nonclinical
  • Specialized
1 6.0
administrative
180 4.6

Surface Forms

nonclinical positive

Morphology

nonclinical = clinical (transparent) = non + clinical

Formed by the productive negating prefix 'non-' applied to 'clinical', giving the straightforward meaning 'not clinical'.

Etymology

Nonclinical is made of non- meaning 'not' and clinical, which comes from clinic, a place for patient care. So, nonclinical means 'not involving direct medical treatment or patient care', often used for research, office work, or demonstration.