NOUN
- a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects; conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial
How To Use preclinical test In A Sentence
- Only five compounds out of 5,000 in preclinical tests get as far as human trials.
- He said he hopes the model will be useful in preclinical testing of possible preventive therapies before they are given to human subjects.
- In preclinical testing these vectors were highly effective against cancerous tumors and did not harm normal tissues.
