Clinical Research Vocabulary

adjective relating to or suitable for a meal, especially dinner

• The doctor recommended monitoring blood sugar levels during the prandial phase.
• Make sure to check your blood sugar after eating, especially during the prandial period.
• I always feel so full and sleepy after a big prandial feast.
• The prandial ritual of sharing a meal with loved ones brings us closer together.

noun a secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug or medical treatment

• One common side effect of the medication is drowsiness.
• The medication might make you feel sleepy as a side effect.
• Taking that drug could have a weird side effect of making you super tired.
• The new policy had the unintended side effect of alienating long-time customers.

noun a fictional or made-up word with no specific definition

• The medical team used drugalyse to analyze the effects of the new medication on the patients.
• I heard they're using drugalyse to see how the new drug works.
• The doctors are running some drugalyse tests to check out the new meds.
• She could drugalyse the situation and see that something was not right.

noun the branch of bacteriology that studies bacteria that require oxygen to grow

• Aerobacteriology is the branch of microbiology that focuses on studying aerobic bacteria.
• I find aerobacteriology to be quite interesting because it deals with bacteria that require oxygen to survive.
• Aerobacteriology is all about those oxygen-loving bacteria.
• Exploring aerobacteriology is like delving into the world of oxygen-dependent microbial life.