Definition of subclinical in English:
subclinical
adjective sʌbˈklɪnɪk(ə)lˌsəbˈklɪnɪk(ə)l
Medicine Relating to or denoting a disease which is not severe enough to present definite or readily observable symptoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- We cannot exclude the possibility that some children in our study had subclinical gastrointestinal symptoms before their presentation with autistic behaviour.
- Improvement was defined as partial or complete resolution of clinical or subclinical symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy.
- Most of the infected persons remain asymptomatic or suffer from subclinical infection3.
- Some venous thromboembolisms may be subclinical, whereas others present as sudden pulmonary embolus or symptomatic deep vein thrombosis.
- Overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome have evidence of subclinical cardiovascular disease.
Definition of subclinical in US English:
subclinical
adjectiveˌsəbˈklinik(ə)lˌsəbˈklɪnɪk(ə)l
Medicine Relating to or denoting a disease which is not severe enough to present definite or readily observable symptoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of the infected persons remain asymptomatic or suffer from subclinical infection3.
- Overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome have evidence of subclinical cardiovascular disease.
- Some venous thromboembolisms may be subclinical, whereas others present as sudden pulmonary embolus or symptomatic deep vein thrombosis.
- We cannot exclude the possibility that some children in our study had subclinical gastrointestinal symptoms before their presentation with autistic behaviour.
- Improvement was defined as partial or complete resolution of clinical or subclinical symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy.