How to Use subclinical in a Sentence

subclinical

adjective
  • The idea seems to be that there’s plenty of stress that doesn’t quite hit the psychiatric level — and so these drinks exist for your subclinical anxiety needs.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The findings hinted that people may have somehow come down with subclinical infections that cleared up on their own, Meng said.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Sadick says that the scraping creates subclinical (microscopic) wounds in the skin.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 8 Aug. 2020
  • And twice, maybe three times, as many suffer from what experts call subclinical eating disorders.
    Gracie Bonds Staples, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In other words, hangover anxiety can be one of these subclinical (not severe enough to be diagnosed) symptoms of withdrawal.
    Christina Stiehl, SELF, 1 Jan. 2021
  • All of those traits must be present to warrant a diagnosis of subclinical psychopathy (as opposed to clinical psychopathy).
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2018
  • There's probably a lot of people with mild to subclinical infection since more of the infection is happening in a younger population that's less likely to become very symptomatic.
    CBS News, 25 July 2021
  • Research published in January measured the prevalence and rate of progression of subclinical vascular lesions, or early stages of the plaque that can block arteries, in 4,000 people with no history of heart disease.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The trials will be monitoring for myocarditis and subclinical myocarditis, which doesn't cause symptoms.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Some health care workers who demonstrate milder subclinical findings are often mistaken as asymptomatic — these comprise the majority of cases.
    David Malebranche, STAT, 4 June 2020
  • Some mild cases of hypothyroidism, called subclinical hypothyroidism, are associated with an elevated TSH while the T4 level stays within the normal range.
    Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The authors were researching the effectiveness of a drug that is widely, if controversially, used to treat older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism, better known as a slightly underactive thyroid.
    Paula Span, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
  • However, the adolescent study participants were no more likely to have higher levels of subclinical depression or anxiety, or display psychotic-like symptoms, than adults who use cannabis.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 5 July 2022
  • Yet millions of older Americans, diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism based on T.S.H. numbers, are taking a medication that now appears pointless.
    Paula Span, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The histopathology report states the cause of death to be most likely acute cardiac arrest potentially associated with early subclinical cardiac insufficiency found during the necropsy.
    Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • There was also speculation that India’s tight living quarters might have produced millions of subclinical infections, creating a mild, natural immunity.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Subclinical autistic traits deserve close scrutiny for possible detrimental effects on children, Constantino adds.
    Bruce Bower, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2010
  • This association with cardiac morphology and function might indicate that cardiac troponins can detect subclinical myocardial damage or injury in otherwise healthy individuals13.
    Christos Varounis, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2021
  • These findings imply that troponins are associated with early signs of subclinical myocardial injury and atherosclerosis, and might potentially help provide early signs of underlying coronary artery disease in asymptomatic individuals.
    Christos Varounis, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2021
  • However, diagnosing subclinical hypothyroidism can be tricky.
    Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 24 July 2017

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