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BIOMEDICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine
Example:
biomedical research laboratory
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
biomedicine (the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice)
Derivation:
biomedicine (the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice)
Context examples:
Indicates a biomedical image that is of acceptable quality, with no technical defect likely to impair using the image for diagnosis.
(Diagnostic Quality, NCI Thesaurus)
It might one day be used to conduct biomedical tests in remote and resource-limited areas.
(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)
The NCI Thesaurus, which is a biomedical thesaurus created specifically to meet the needs of the NCI, is produced by the NCI EVS project.
(NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services, NCI Thesaurus)
NCIt is updated monthly to support precise coding of data based on the most recent developments in the cancer and biomedical research community.
(NCI Thesaurus, NCI Thesaurus)
Also, OPRR is responsible for providing guidance on ethical issues in biomedical and behavioral research.
(Office for Protection from Research Risks, NCI Thesaurus)
An action plan of a pre-clinical or clinical study in which biomedical and/or health outcomes are assessed in pre-defined groups of individuals.
(Observational Study Protocol Version, NCI Thesaurus)
An organization with monitoring, regulatory, or supervisory authority over biomedical research at the local, regional, national, or international level.
(Oversight Authority, NCI Thesaurus)
An organization that approves, monitors and reviews biomedical research to protect the rights, safety and welfare of the study subjects.
(Oversight Committee, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic thiacetic acid derivative used in biomedical research, carcinogenic Pirinixic acid is a peroxisome proliferator that activates specific peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR).
(Pirinixic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A clinical research protocol designed to test a new biomedical intervention in a small group of people for the first time.
(phase I trial, NCI Thesaurus)
