CLINICAL TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clinical test mean? 

• CLINICAL TEST (noun)
  The noun CLINICAL TEST has 1 sense:

1. a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use

  Familiarity information: CLINICAL TEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINICAL TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

clinical test; clinical trial

Hypernyms ("clinical test" is a kind of...):

run; test; trial (the act of testing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clinical test"):

phase I; phase I clinical trial (a clinical trial on a few persons to determine the safety of a new drug or invasive medical device; for drugs, dosage or toxicity limits should be obtained)

phase II; phase II clinical trial (a clinical trial on more persons than in phase I; intended to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment for the condition it is intended to treat; possible side effects are monitored)

phase III; phase III clinical trial (a large clinical trial of a treatment or drug that in phase I and phase II has been shown to be efficacious with tolerable side effects; after successful conclusion of these clinical trials it will receive formal approval from the FDA)

phase IV; phase IV clinical trial (sometimes the FDA approves a drug for general use but requires the manufacturer to continue to monitor its effects; during this phase the drug may be tried on slightly different patient populations than those studied in earlier trials)

 Context examples 

A sequence of characters that identifies laboratory and clinical test results within the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) database.

(LOINC Code, NCI Thesaurus)

This feature allows a person's chromosomes to be studied in a clinical test known as a karyotype, which allows scientists to look for chromosomal alterations.

(Cytogenetic Map, NCI Thesaurus)

The result of a laboratory, radiologic, or other clinical test performed to determine the presence, absence, or degree of a condition.

(Clinical Test Result, NCI Thesaurus)