| ACLA | American Clinical Laboratory Association |
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| ASCLT | American Society of Clinical Laboratory Technicians |
| CLMA | Clinical Laboratory Management Association |
| CLS | cafe-au-lait spot; Clinical Laboratory Scientist; Coffin-Lowry syndrome; Cornelia de Lange syndrome |
| CVLT | California Verbal Learning Test; clinical vascular laboratory |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
| clinical disease | A disease with clinical signs and symptoms that are recognizable. As distinct from a subclinical illness without clinical manifestations. Diabetes, for example, can be subclinical in someone before emerging as a clinical disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| clinical epidemiology | The field concerned with applying epidemiological principles in a clinical setting.Whereas classical epidemiology studies populations in an attempt to assess causes and distribution of disease and to formulate statistical measures of risk, clinical epidemiology focuses on medically defined populations (patients). (05 Mar 2000) |