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Clinical trial
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clinical trial
n.
A research study using consenting human subjects that tests the effectiveness and safety of a treatment, a diagnostic tool, or a prophylactic intervention.

Clinical trial
All new drugs undergo clinical trials before approval. Clinical trials are carefully conducted tests in which effectiveness and side effects are studied, with the placebo effect eliminated.

clinical trial,
n a trial based upon the scientific method in which a control group and a test group are compared over time in order to study a single, differing factor.

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