Clinical science
Clinical Science
Clinical Science (pronunciation: /ˈklɪnɪkəl ˈsaɪəns/) is a branch of medicine that is primarily focused on the use of clinical trials and laboratory tests to enhance and improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Etymology
The term 'Clinical Science' is derived from the Greek word 'klinikos', which means 'bed', referring to the treatment of patients at their bedside. 'Science' comes from the Latin word 'scientia', meaning 'knowledge'.
Related Terms
- Clinical Trials: These are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment, like a new drug or diet or medical device (for example, a pacemaker) is safe and effective in people.
- Disease: A particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury.
- Medicine: The science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
- Laboratory: A controlled setting from which many forms of scientific research, experiments, and measurements may be performed.
- Diagnosis: The identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.
- Treatment: The management and care of a patient to combat, ameliorate, or prevent a disease, disorder, or injury.
- Prevention: The action of stopping something from happening or arising.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Clinical science
- Wikipedia's article - Clinical science
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