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trialist

trialist

6.4
A person taking part in a medical study
  • noun
  • /ˈtraɪəlɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : participante
  • As a committed trialist, she was excited to contribute to the development of innovative therapies for patients.
  • Trialists' Collaboration
  • Treatment Trialists

Examples

  • "As a long-term chronic disease trialist, it feels very good to be done," he said.

    Blog text (29)
  • Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration:

    Academic text (2003)
  • These overviews were designed and reported by a consensus of members of the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The design of this multicentre study has been described elsewhere, but a key point is that the protocol invited trialists to ascertain whether women had a treatment preference.

    Academic text (1993)
  • As premenopausal node-positive patients were not eligible for inclusion in our trial, the proportion of node-positive cases was only 23%, but the results of the overview reported by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists'

    Academic text (2000)
  • Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG): Effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for early breast cancer on recurrence.

    Blog text (13)
  • The NICE guidance on lipid lowering published in 2008 may be several years old now, but a recent meta-analysis (The Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaboration) published in 2010 continues to provide support for its recommendations.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration was established to undertake a series of prospectively designed systematic overviews to investigate the effects of different blood-pressure-lowering regimens on mortality and major cardiovascular events.

    Academic text (2003)
  • In the clinical study, each trialist was monitored closely to assess the effectiveness of the new medication.

  • The researchers needed more trialists to participate in the ground-breaking cancer treatment study.

Synonyms

testee
vstrialist
1 6.5

A person who takes an exam or takes part in an experiment

is a person who takes part specifically in medical or clinical studies

Antonyms

A person who does not take part in an activity or event

How Involved

trialist
  • Specialized
6.4
participant
295 2.4
volunteer
7 3.5

Surface Forms

trialist singular
trialists plural

Morphology

trialist = trial (transparent) = trial + ist

The meaning 'person connected with a medical or scientific trial' is directly built from 'trial' plus the agentive suffix '-ist'.

Etymology

Trialist comes from trial meaning 'test' and the ending -ist meaning 'a person'. So a trialist in medicine is a person who takes part in a medical 'trial' or study to test a new treatment.