| phase II t. |
a clinical trial on a small group of patients, designed to determine the effectiveness of the given regimen in treating the disorder in question.
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| phase III t. |
a clinical trial using a large sample of patients, designed to compare the overall course of their disorder under the new treatment with its course untreated and treated with standard therapies previously used; studies are also done on the relative morbidities of the different treatments.
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| phase IV t. |
additional studies done after a drug has been approved for distribution or marketing, which could include examination of long-term effects, adverse effects, or specific aspects of a drug's action.
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| phase m. |
a microscope that converts variations of the refracting index in the object into variations of intensity in the image. Altering the phase relationship of light passing through and that passing around the object allows details of living cells to be seen without the fixation and staining that is normally necessary.
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| phase r. |
a heterogeneous chemical system of p coexistent phases and c variable components has c - p + 2 degrees of freedom or variations of phase, i.e., the sum of its coexistent phases and its possible changes of phase exceeds the number of its components by 2.
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