subclinical
IPA: sʌbkɫˈɪnɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Of a disease or injury, without signs and symptoms that are detectable by physical examination or laboratory test; not clinically manifest.
- In diagnosis, where some criteria are met but not enough to achieve clinical status
- (medicine, of a dosage) Less than is needed for clinical reasons
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Examples of "subclinical" in Sentences
- This is also true of subclinical brucellosis.
- He has cerebellar atrophy and subclinical seizures.
- There are no outward signs of the subclinical phase.
- During clinical latency, an infection is subclinical.
- Disease may also be present, but at a subclinical level.
- Bone pathology is greatly effected by the subclinical state.
- IMO, subclinical hypothyroidism should be a part of treatment as it is now.
- A subclinically infected fish may initially only have a single trophozoite.
- EE is commonly a subclinical infection; symptomatic infections are uncommon.
- I think it's also worth asking why it is that we sympathize with clinical forms of mental illness, but condemn the subclinical forms.
- But they can also cause "subclinical" infections that, despite a lack of symptoms, are the single biggest risk factor for cervical cancer.
- Reported cases of dengue are an under representation of all cases when accounting for subclinical cases and cases where the patient did not present for medical treatment.
- However, if you consider the fact that the investigators in most studies of ADHD are more rigorous in their election process than clinicians, who often diagnose and prescribe stimulants for "subclinical" cases, the percentage of nongenetic impulsive/inattentive behavior is probably far higher than 85%.
- At-risk women have more than one major risk factor for heart disease (such as cigarette smoking, poor diet, inactivity, obesity, family history of early heart disease, high blood pressure or cholesterol, evidence of '' subclinical '' vascular disease, metabolic syndrome, or poor treadmill test results).
- Whatever the neurological effects of fluoride are exactly, Williams argues that the antifluoridationists lost the debate - at least for now - simply because the good effects of fluoride are more perceptible than the time-latent, sometimes merely "subclinical" neurological effects that apparently result from the ingestion of fluoride.