adjective
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a clinical diagnosis (=given as the result of tests)
▪ Pneumonia was the most common clinical diagnosis with these symptoms.
a clinical examination (=by a doctor)
▪ The clinical examination may not reveal anything abnormal.
clinical thermometer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
application
▪ The clinical application of devices or materials which contact blood is of major importance in modern medicine.
▪ The work, if confirmed, could eventually lead to clinical application in the treatment of aplastic anaemia and malignancy.
▪ Many other substances were screened for antiviral activity and a few drugs with limited clinical application were found.
▪ Skeletal bone fillers Not all clinical applications demand the high mechanical strengths that are needed in dental crowns.
▪ The study of gastric mucosal proliferation may have important clinical applications.
area
▪ The invited speakers are either themselves practising in the clinical area or currently speaking or writing about childbirth matters.
▪ Clinical managers have more narrowly defined responsibilities than generalists and have training and / or experience in a specific clinical area.
▪ It helps if you can limit your first list to those skills you will require in one clinical area.
▪ But in the clinical area it is possible to teach concepts by observation and experiences supported by language.
▪ However, in the clinical area this is not always easy to apply.
▪ Ward learning resources During her training, a student is assigned to various clinical areas for periods of six to twelve weeks.
▪ My period of training took place as I was practising in the clinical area.
assessment
▪ Examination by written papers, oral clinical assessment and thesis.
▪ All patients routinely underwent clinical assessment of continence before operation.
▪ This is currently undergoing clinical assessment in Britain, and if all goes well will be commercially available within a few years.
▪ A standard, detailed clinical assessment was also carried out on a subsample of these children.
benefit
▪ This improvement in outcome implies economic as well as clinical benefit.
care
▪ Colonoscopic surveillance in colitis should reduce cancer related death compared with routine clinical care, by detecting early curable cancer.
▪ That means a high standard of clinical care and a personal service.
▪ This may be in terms of amenities in hospital wards, or in the actual clinical care provided.
▪ This knowledge was rapidly applied to clinical care by responsible physicians.
▪ The standard of clinical care reported is less than acceptable.
▪ Purchasers may buy clinical care but will not want to pay the extra costs attributable to research.
course
▪ Invasion and metastasis largely determine the clinical course of colorectal carcinomas.
▪ From these findings and from the clinical course, we concluded that the fragments had passed spontaneously into the duodenum.
▪ When she was seen there seemed to be no good reason for this strange reversal in her clinical course.
▪ His older sister had died at the age of 6 months after an identical clinical course.
▪ Their clinical features were compared, as was the extent of disease, the clinical course, and prognosis.
▪ Table I summarises their subsequent clinical course.
▪ Secondly, transport of such critically ill patients to regional referral centres should be considered and discussed early in the clinical course.
▪ Therefore the relation between the ICAM-1 expression and the clinical course seems to be of diagnostic interest for colonic carcinoma.
data
▪ The triple computer system contained confidential clinical data including details of how long patients had to live.
▪ If I answer no I simply return the questionnaire without any clinical data.
▪ The table summarises the clinical data and results.
▪ Table I shows the clinical data on admission.
▪ Results Table I shows clinical data for all 23 patients.
▪ No clinical data regarding the aetiology of superficial gastritis in these patients are given.
▪ These plants, unlike the earlier tonics, have the backing of a large amount of experimental and clinical data.
▪ If these data were combined with clinical data then large subgroups with low mortality could be identified.
decision
▪ We believe that in future clinical computer systems will provide support for making detailed clinical decisions.
▪ This report offered a useful opportunity to discuss the extent to which the age factor might influence clinical decision making.
▪ Whether a patient needs to be admitted immediately is a clinical decision.
▪ Whether this has resulted in better clinical decision making, patient satisfaction, or use of resources is as yet unknown.
▪ Fundholding practitioners would be less constrained in their clinical decision making and patients could anticipate more choice and improvements in services.
▪ Sobel and Collen suggested that clinical decisions on intravenous heparin should await the outcome of unfinished trials.
▪ Systematic reviews: synthesis of best evidence for clinical decisions.
depression
▪ Similar definitions apply to osteoporosis or clinical depression.
▪ Of those who commit suicide, 60 percent suffer from clinical depression, Quinnett claims.
▪ Another important symptom of clinical depression is loss of the capacity to love.
▪ Four of five people with clinical depression can improve and resume daily activity, usually within weeks.
▪ There is, however, abundant evidence that many patients vulnerable to clinical depression have a constitutional deficit of serotonin.
▪ One assumes other factors were at work, perhaps clinical depression, so that the medal controversy precipitated his decision.
▪ Darlington magistrates were told Mr Siddle had been suffering from clinical depression triggered by business problems.
▪ I can give you clinical depression.
diagnosis
▪ Delayed gastric emptying after surgery was confirmed in only 20% of patients referred with this clinical diagnosis.
▪ The results are often at variance with the clinical diagnosis.
▪ Patients who fail to respond to these regimens or whose symptoms do not allow an accurate clinical diagnosis should be referred.
▪ It is a safe, clinical diagnosis requiring no investigation.
director
▪ This could be a dilemma for both the clinical director and other consultants within the directorate.
▪ Such concerns can create new and significant demands upon the staff management skills of new clinical directors.
disease
▪ It contributes to the syndrome of parasitic gastroenteritis and only occasionally occurs in sufficient numbers to cause clinical disease on its own.
▪ Young calves, added to such a grazing herd in July, may develop clinical disease within 2-3 weeks.
ecologist
▪ A report by the Royal College of Physicians of London concluded that studies of clinical ecologists were seriously flawed.
▪ In a well publicised case a patient recently committed suicide while under the care of a clinical ecologist.
▪ The question of validity of the methods of clinical ecologists is essentially what constitutes good science.
▪ Papers written by clinical ecologists for clinical ecologists in clinical ecology journals have little scientific impact.
ecology
▪ We find much of concern in the current vituperative condemnation of clinical ecology.
▪ No such authoritative review of clinical ecology can occur without the active participation of proponents of the approach.
▪ Papers written by clinical ecologists for clinical ecologists in clinical ecology journals have little scientific impact.
evidence
▪ These early studies were performed in diabetics with and without clinical evidence of vascular disease.
▪ However, accumulating clinical evidence suggests that the single worst action a victim can take is to submit to an abusive partner.
▪ This hypothesis is not widely accepted as the clinical evidence generally is not supportive.
▪ Although platelet thromboxane generation was elevated in diabetics without clinical evidence of vascular disease, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
▪ Final microbiological diagnosis was made by two infectious disease specialists who weighed all available clinical evidence.
▪ More recent studies have attempted to overcome this problem by electively studying diabetics free from clinical evidence of vascular disease.
▪ Historically, clinical evidence has been the greatest source of research into differences between the hemispheres.
examination
▪ A health check, in my opinion, involves a clinical examination and intervention, where appropriate, based on the findings.
▪ Usually, the clinical presentation is not subtle, and the presence of a malignancy becomes obvious after a thorough clinical examination.
▪ No abnormalities were found on clinical examination.
▪ A further clinical examination is time consuming since it entails preparing another feed and watching or palpating the abdomen throughout a feed.
▪ These results suggest that medication is often prescribed without clinical examination and probably without a diagnosis being made.
experience
▪ Lack of support during previous clinical experience may have sapped the confidence of the learner.
▪ It has been studied the most extensively and there is a very large clinical experience with the drug.
▪ Tutorials Tutorials should be arranged during a ward allocation so that the learner covers specific subjects relevant to her clinical experience.
▪ Would that we had had a bit more clinical experience, but that is part of their program today.
▪ This is obviously not conducive to ward learning, and valuable clinical experience is wasted.
▪ This has not been a problem in practical clinical experience.
▪ His clinical experiences taken together provided the basis for, as well as continuing opportunity to re-evaluate, his theory of early emotional development.
▪ This has not been the usual clinical experience, and these results have not been replicated.
finding
▪ The high standard of diagnostic imaging skills at our hospital has led to a decreased reliance on clinical findings.
▪ She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings.
▪ Tumour staging was dependant upon the histological features and the clinical findings at the time of resection.
▪ Our clinical findings suggest that the neuronal disorder may be compensated to some degree because the intestines are richly innervated.
judgment
▪ This is what clinical judgment is all about.
management
▪ To minimise potential bias, the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients.
▪ Specific ethical approval was not obtained for physiological recordings, which were considered part of clinical management.
▪ Though the numbers affected are small colonoscopic biopsy and histological examination for dysplasia seems to hold no advantage over routine clinical management.
▪ Closer examination of these studies shows a number of features that may help in the clinical management of these patients.
manifestation
▪ Although we used a pragmatic primary outcome, we carefully investigated all clinical manifestations.
▪ Thus, it seems most reasonable to PostPone drug therapy of primary hyperuricemia until clinical manifestations occur.
▪ They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations.
▪ The clinical manifestations will reflect the location of the epileptogenic focus.
▪ Some of the clinical manifestations in the coeliac disease patient may be a result of carnitine deficiency.
medicine
▪ Differences between clinical medicine and public health in their views on quality assurance are also illustrated.
▪ Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine, but they had grave disadvantages.
▪ The reports illustrate the tensions between clinical medicine and public health in the formulation of health policy.
▪ The objective is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of normal human biology with aspects relevant to clinical medicine.
need
▪ This situation has enormous implications for all patients who require an extra contractual referral based on clinical need.
▪ I think clinical need is often influenced by the thickness of somebody's big wallet.
▪ The practice reiterated its concern about having the freedom to refer patients according to clinical need.
▪ The clinical need for a non-traumatic method of exploration was stated by Oldendorf in the 1960s.
practice
▪ Is clinical practice supervised and formally assessed before course completion?
▪ How much control of clinical practice should be included in the monitoring schemes?
▪ Measurement of the albumin excretion rate requires an accurately timed collection of urine, which is difficult in routine clinical practice.
▪ The latest findings may not make much difference to clinical practice in this country.
▪ Isotope gastric emptying studies may be useful in clinical practice.
▪ In clinical practice grommet insertion may be performed for a number of different indications apart from hearing loss.
▪ This is essential for the translation of research findings into clinical practice and should be mandatory in reports in clinical journals.
presentation
▪ While these symptoms impart a conformity to the clinical presentation, the underlying psychodynamic psychopathology is varied.
▪ Trismus may be very prominent, resulting in a clinical presentation mimicking tetanus.
▪ There have been few controlled prospective studies of the effect of transferring to human insulin on the clinical presentation of hypoglycaemia.
▪ A presumptive diagnosis of gout can often be made on the basis of hyperuricemia and the clinical presentation.
▪ Firstly, he or she will have an understanding of primary care, especially clinical presentations in general practice.
▪ Usually, the clinical presentation is not subtle, and the presence of a malignancy becomes obvious after a thorough clinical examination.
▪ The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.
▪ It is a nonspecific test and must be interpreted in the context of the total clinical presentation. 4.
problem
▪ More commonly, larval numbers increase on pasture in summer and autumn giving rise to clinical problems during these seasons.
▪ The organism was not believed to be a clinical problem.
▪ This real clinical problem presents a therapeutic dilemma.
▪ The main, unsolved clinical problem is chronic duodenal ulcer.
▪ This may help in the investigation of conditions where gastroparesis is a clinical problem.
▪ Although this complication is unlikely to cause overt clinical problems it may result in diagnostic confusion particularly with peritoneal malignancy.
psychologist
▪ School and clinical psychologists may offer more information about the intelligence and personality of school-age children than any other professional.
▪ The team now consists of 5 social workers, 5 community mental handicap nurses and 3 clinical psychologists.
▪ Interviews conducted by school or clinical psychologists with parents and teachers may rule out the existence of an attention-deficit disorder.
▪ Ninety percent of all applicants are interviewed by a clinical psychologist.
▪ Spring is a Westport, Conn., clinical psychologist who specializes in treating issues of infidelity.
psychology
▪ Day hospital places have also continued to increase, but in many districts clinical psychology services are underresourced.
▪ Keeping the contract Martin Herbert, a professor of clinical psychology, has written an excellent book, Living with Teenagers.
remission
▪ Also, treatment was considered unsuccessful when clinical remission was not achieved after four weeks.
▪ He was referred in 1984 and had a full clinical remission with elemental diet and began single food reintroductions.
▪ All patients with ulcerative colitis were in clinical remission and had normal levels of haemoglobin, C-reactive protein, and serum orosomucoid.
▪ Almost all affected twins were in clinical remission.
▪ They were otherwise in clinical remission.
research
▪ Nurses as researchers Nurses are admirably placed to carry out clinical research.
▪ If you were doing clinical research with a spiritual or religious factor, you were considered fringe.
▪ Other programs are based on clinical research and used in professional practices.
▪ If Britain is to maintain its tradition of excellent clinical research adequate support must be provided for the clinical costs of research.
▪ The company invests heavily in clinical research, beyond what is needed to get its drugs past the regulators.
▪ Britain's clinical research is widely acknowledged to be in very bad shape.
▪ There has then little clinical research in this field, although a recent paper from appeared in Aviation and Space Medicine.
service
▪ How do we pay for clinical services which we are purchasing?
▪ That is, it may be easier to agree a price for a contract for clinical services than to assess cost or cost-effectiveness.
sign
▪ The principal clinical signs in heavy infections are rapid weight loss and diarrhoea.
▪ When laboratory findings confirm clinical signs of nutrition problems, an interview with a nutritionist is essential.
▪ In severe infections, diarrhoea is the most prominent clinical sign.
▪ Mass emergence of these larvae results in the severe clinical signs described previously.
▪ This is based on the grazing history and clinical signs of loss of condition and anaemia.
▪ Otherwise, clinical signs are absent except in the occasional case of intestinal or biliary obstruction.
▪ A group of specific clinical signs seem useful in predicting hypoxaemia.
▪ This is based on clinical signs, seasonal occurrence of disease and, if possible, lesions at post-mortem examination.
study
▪ Reserpine became the focus of further clinical studies.
▪ Many clinical studies initially reported excellent results with the drug.
▪ These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies, the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham.
▪ All the government wanted was a statutory vehicle such as these clinical studies to prove whether this works or not.
▪ Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years.
▪ Pre-emptive analgesia has, indeed, been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies.
▪ For example, the distinction between pre-clinical and clinical studies has been eroded in some medical courses.
symptom
▪ Pneumonia was the clinical symptom most strongly associated with seroconversion among drug users.
▪ The clinical symptoms of magnesium excess or deficiency can be demonstrated to relate to this dependence.
▪ None experienced side effects or clinical symptoms.
▪ Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.
▪ Epigastric pain was the main clinical symptom of duodenal ulcer disease: this was experienced by all patients before entering the study.
▪ The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea, mild to moderate in severity.
teacher
▪ Because this skill is vital to a nurse, it must be developed by clinical teachers, tutors and the ward team.
▪ The clinical teacher should be part of the ward team, but must resist becoming an extra pair of hands.
▪ The teacher may be a more experienced student, one of the ward's trained staff or the clinical teacher.
▪ Formal departmental boundaries were lost, and clinical teachers were involved from the beginning of the course.
▪ The student and the clinical teacher can work as a team, though not necessarily together.
▪ The role of the clinical teacher has been discussed in the previous chapter.
▪ Here, therefore, only the opportunities and problems in bedside nursing as they affect the clinical teacher will be mentioned.
▪ The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
test
▪ Some limited laboratory and clinical tests undertaken at Bayer led to the belief that it was slightly too toxic to be acceptable.
▪ Approval is by no means certain, despite two rounds of late-stage clinical tests that appear to demonstrate the Serono drug works.
trial
▪ The high cost of clinical trials and animal tests has forced Beecham to hold back products that looked promising in research.
▪ Data from more than thirty clinical trials involving more than 10, 000 pain patients unequivocally support this conclusion.
▪ New products currently under development and in clinical trials in our biomedical business offer exciting potential for future growth.
▪ Agouron is counting on Viracept sales to finance development of several other products, including a cancer drug now in clinical trials.
▪ Publication bias: the case for an international registry of clinical trials.
▪ Insurers have everything to gain by supporting clinical trials.
▪ If it is confirmed by longer and larger clinical trials, this will rightly be hailed as a scientific triumph.
▪ These cancer surveillance programmes are now widely implemented despite not having been subjected to clinical trial.
use
▪ Six thrombolytic agents are either approved for clinical use or under clinical investigation in some patients with acute myocardial infarction.
▪ Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice.
▪ Like the beta-blocking drugs which came into clinical use later, their effects were not predicted but were undoubtedly useful.
▪ Whether these agents will be safe enough for clinical use in man remains unknown.
▪ Although not yet in clinical use there is now some highly innovative potential in the treatment of disease.
▪ A further restriction on the clinical use of alumina is the response of tissues to its implantation.
▪ Similarly, despite widespread clinical use, evidence for sulphasalazine renal toxicity is scanty.
▪ Examples of the clinical uses of bioceramics.
work
▪ During the three-year course for registration, the student nurse spends four-fifths of her time on clinical work.
▪ Do they use that in making decisions about their clinical work?
▪ The post was very interesting and involved a good blend of research, teaching and clinical work.
▪ Supplementary income generating activities include clinical work and consultancies for donor agencies.
▪ Good and less good students all need teaching and supervision in their clinical work.
▪ His work on dreams and symbolism has proved valuable in clinical work.
▪ The increased detail of these codes means that hospital coders are likely to have more difficulty in coding clinical work accurately.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cold, clinical view of homelessness
▪ His words were harsh and clinical -- "I don't love you any more. It is over. I am leaving you.''
▪ Klinsmann was absolutely clinical in scoring that goal.
▪ Sound systems are now used in clinical settings, especially in psychiatrists' and dentists' offices.
▪ The drug has undergone a number of clinical trials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, this study has been criticized on both clinical and laboratory grounds.
▪ Important differences existed between the clinical and rehabilitation members in their approach to patient management.
▪ In a well publicised case a patient recently committed suicide while under the care of a clinical ecologist.
▪ In our clinical age, we call it the subconscious.
▪ Perfection is cold and clinical, every angle precise, every edge razor sharp and according to plan.
▪ The department has a strong research base reflecting commitment to clinical nursing and the utilisation of research.
▪ This will mostly be used in clinical trials, although some is expected to go to those with official medical approval.
▪ While these symptoms impart a conformity to the clinical presentation, the underlying psychodynamic psychopathology is varied.