Biomedical vs Preclinical - What's the difference?
biomedical | preclinical |
Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
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(medicine) Describing the period of a disease before any symptoms appear
Describing a test or trial of a new pharmaceutical on animals (or in vitro) rather than on humans
As adjectives the difference between biomedical and preclinical
is that biomedical is biomedical (pertaining to biomedicine) while preclinical is (medicine) describing the period of a disease before any symptoms appear.biomedical
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Adjective
(-)- The research problem was biomedical' in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with '''biomedical''', psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our ' biomedical colleagues felt that [...]
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.
- Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.