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preclinical

adj

Etymology

From pre- + clinical.

  1. derived from κλῑνικός
  2. derived from clīnicus
  3. borrowed from clinique
  4. suffixed as clinical — “clinic + -al”
  5. prefixed as preclinical — “pre + clinical”

Definitions

  1. Describing the period of a disease before any symptoms appear

  2. Describing a test or trial of a new pharmaceutical on animals (or in vitro) rather than…

    Describing a test or trial of a new pharmaceutical on animals (or in vitro) rather than on humans

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preclinical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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