Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun clinical_trial

1 sense of clinical trial

Sense 1
clinical trial, clinical test -- (a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use)
       => test, trial, run -- (the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial")