PRECLINICAL
- Relating to or denoting a stage preceding a clinical stage, in particular
- Relating to or denoting the first, chiefly theoretical, stage of a medical education
- Relating to or denoting the stage in a disease prior to the appearance of symptoms that make a diagnosis possible
- Relating to or denoting the stage of drug testing that precedes the clinical stage
- relating to the period preceding clinical manifestations [adj PRECLINICALLY]