How to Use clinical in a Sentence

clinical

adjective
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  • Three hundred patients were involved in the clinical study.
  • She enjoys her clinical practice but is looking forward to working in a laboratory.
  • Both experimental and clinical evidence show that the treatment is effective.
  • First, menopause is a clinical diagnosis that’s made when someone has not had a period in the prior 12 months.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Large clinical trials have supported its use for arthritis in the knee, lower back pain and cancer survivors in chronic pain, among others.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2022
  • In the three stages of Type 1 diabetes, Stage 2 is one step before clinical diagnosis.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Croatia’s shootout was as clinical as its broader performance was methodical.
    — Andrew Das, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In clinical trials, patients who received Paxlovid were 89% less likely to develop severe illness than those patients who didn’t.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2022
  • What is the current state of the clinical use of gene therapy?
    — Jean Bennett, The Conversation, 12 May 2023
  • The last time clinical guidance for BOP was released was in 2016.
    — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • If the car is too clinical, as many EVs are, the enthusiasm to own one will wane.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Over the weekend, the producer noticed clinical signs in a handful of cows; the next day, more than 40 cows had signs of fever.
    — Michael Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 June 2024
  • In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic.
    — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There are no plans to use the embryos for anything other than clinical research.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2023
  • There were further changes in 2021—allowing for a telemedicine clinical visit, and for pharmacies to mail the pills.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The brand ensures that the clinical studies were done on an inclusive range of skin tones to make sure the device is both safe and effective for all.
    — Women's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In clinical trials, Wegovy was shown to reduce body weight by around 15%.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Their team of clinical experts wants to put you first and is committed to finding the best solutions for your health problems.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • It should be noted that no clinical research has been conducted on THCP at this time.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Hirayama is not presented as a clinical case or a puzzle to be solved.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And not at all clinical, despite the emphasis on anatomy.
    — Amy Silverman, STAT, 2 June 2023
  • As a clinical nutritionist based in South Australia, the 28-year-old has always been aware of the connection between food and health.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 8 May 2023
  • The cells had clinical white-tiled walls broken by a vertical purple stripe with a toilet and sink in the back of each one; some also had a small shower nozzle.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The dry, clinical term obscures a devastating loss: A person dies as a result of bringing a child into the world.
    — Anna North, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • High nurse manager turnover is quite similar to other clinical nursing staff turnover both in cause and in rate.
    — Toby Bressler and Lauren Ghazal, STAT, 12 Jan. 2024
  • His original war diaries, which Kiesel has edited for Klett-Cotta, give a clinical picture of the chaos of battle and the omnipresence of death.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Few of my clinical colleagues believe that will happen.
    — George Makari, The New Yorker, 13 July 2023
  • The approval came after clinical trials that showed the drug slows cognitive decline but also carries the risk of brain swelling and bleeding.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But the jury is still out, and in the meantime, the GLP-1 frenzy is exposing healthcare stakeholders across the system—patients, employers, insurers, providers—to unsustainable clinical and financial risks.
    — Owen Tripp, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • States are also considering factors such as concerns about adherence, the need for clinical criteria and potential side effects.
    — Tina Reed, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024

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