non-clinicaladj.
/nɒnˈklɪnᵻkl/, U.S. /nɑnˈklɪnək(ə)l/ 1. Not characterized by or involving direct contact with patients.
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1902 Science 26 Dec. 1015/1 The non-clinical, basal sciences, anatomy, physiology, pathology, [etc.].
1941 Sociometry 4 318 The disadvantages he has felt as a non-clinical investigator of behavioral relations.
1995 Independent 23 May 21/2 It introduces students to people with learning disabilities in a non-clinical setting.
2. Not accompanied by or giving rise to directly observable symptoms of a particular condition.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective] > without symptoms
silent1621
occult1651
latent1665
latic1684
symptomless1886
larval1897
non-clinical1913
subclinical1916
asymptomatic1932
1913 Science 26 Sept. 453/1 None of these twelve cases were clinically Vincent's angina. Morphologically the bacilli in clinical and non-clinical cases were alike.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 77/1 The prohibition has been made since the discovery that a form of non-clinical rhinitis exists in pigs in Ireland.
1991 Acta Neuropathologica 81 501/2 Is muscle involvement—even nonclinical and ‘silent’—always a counterpart to HIV infection?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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