Associations to the word «Preclinical»

Wiktionary

PRECLINICAL, adjective. (medicine) Describing the period of a disease before any symptoms appear
PRECLINICAL, adjective. Describing a test or trial of a new pharmaceutical on animals (or in vitro) rather than on humans

Dictionary definition

PRECLINICAL, adjective. Of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared.

Wise words

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus