| Millon clinical multiaxial inventory |
A paper and pencil test, consisting of 20 clinical scales derived from 175 self-descriptive statements, and developed in 1977 for use in the assessment of psychopathology and the more enduring patterns of personality; specifically designed to correspond with some of the disorders of personality included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used in diagnosis by mental health professionals.
Synonym: Millon clinical multiaxial inventory.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory test |
A paper and pencil test, consisting of 20 clinical scales derived from 175 self-descriptive statements, and developed in 1977 for use in the assessment of psychopathology and the more enduring patterns of personality; specifically designed to correspond with some of the disorders of personality included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used in diagnosis by mental health professionals.
Synonym: Millon clinical multiaxial inventory.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| clinical |
1. Pertaining to a clinic or to the bedside.
2. Pertaining to or founded on actual observation and treatment of patients, as distinguished from theoretical or basis sciences.
(18 Nov 1997) |
| clinical anatomy |
The practical application of anatomical knowledge to diagnosis and treatment.
Synonym: applied anatomy.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| clinical burden |
A burden that differs from genetic burden mainly in the added component of morbidity; a trait that is neither a clinical or a genetic lethal may be grossly disabling.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| clinical chemistry |
The chemistry of human health and disease, chemistry in connection with the management of patients, as in a hospital laboratory.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| clinical chemistry tests |
Laboratory tests demonstrating the presence of physiologically significant substances in the blood, urine, tissue, and body fluids with application to the diagnosis or therapy of disease.
(12 Dec 1998) |
| clinical clerkship |
Undergraduate medical education programs for second- , third- , and fourth-year students in which the students receive clinical training and experience in teaching hospitals or affiliated health centres.
(12 Dec 1998) |
| clinical competence |
The capability to perform acceptably those duties directly related to patient care.
(12 Dec 1998) |
| clinical conference |
A conference of physicians on their observations of a patient at the bedside, regarding the physical state, laboratory and other diagnostic findings, clinical manifestations, results of current therapy, etc. A clinical conference usually ends with a confirmation or correction of clinical findings by a pathological diagnosis performed by a pathologist. "clinical conference" is often referred to as a "clinico-pathological conference."
(12 Dec 1998) |
| clinical cooperative group |
A group of medical institutions cooperating to perform clinical research.
(16 Dec 1997) |
| clinical crown |
That part of the crown of a tooth visible in the oral cavity.
Synonym: corona clinica.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| clinical cytogenetics |
The application of chromosome studies to clinical medicine. For example, clinical cytogenetic testing is done to see if a child with possible Down syndrome has an extra chromosome 21, as is most often the case. Clinical Cytogenetics is a specialty certified by the American Board Of Medical Genetics.
(12 Dec 1998) |
| clinical depression |
<psychiatry> A clinical syndrome that includes a persistent sad mood or loss of interest in activities that persists for at least 2 weeks in the absence of external precipitants.
This should not be confused with a grief reaction (death of loved one). Features may include change in eating habits, insomnia, early morning wakening, lack of interest, depressed mood, fatigue and suicidal thoughts.
(27 Sep 1997) |
| clinical diagnosis |
A diagnosis made from a study of the signs and symptoms of a disease.
(05 Mar 2000) |
