How to Use subclinical in a Sentence

subclinical

adjective
  • Permanent damage to red blood cells is one of the most common subclinical symptoms.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • If the goal is to raise awareness, the best course of action is probably to let the subclinical cases be counted.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • And twice, maybe three times, as many suffer from what experts call subclinical eating disorders.
    — Gracie Bonds Staples, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Sadick says that the scraping creates subclinical (microscopic) wounds in the skin.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 8 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trials will be monitoring for myocarditis and subclinical myocarditis, which doesn't cause symptoms.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Depending on a person’s health status, they may also be screened for advanced liver fibrosis, markers of kidney disease, and the signs of subclinical heart failure.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Research shows the role of healthy narcissism occurs at subclinical levels in everyday populations and can help motivate people to enhance themselves and to progress in life.
    — Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That test has like a 90% sensitivity for detecting what’s called subclinical mastitis.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
  • On average, participants started the trial with mild depression and ended with subclinical levels.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 18 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • These risk factors include joint pain and subclinical joint inflammation, which is when an imaging study, like magnetic resonance imaging, sees joint inflammation that can’t be seen by a clinician examining the joints.
    — Kevin Deane, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Subclinical autistic traits deserve close scrutiny for possible detrimental effects on children, Constantino adds.
    — Bruce Bower, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2010
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, diagnosing subclinical hypothyroidism can be tricky.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 24 July 2017
  • 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
  • Another 3% to 5%, or 5 to 9 million people, will, at some point in their lives, report a subclinical problem, which means that some gambling disorder symptoms are present but the psychiatric diagnosis is not warranted.
    — Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Participants who had mild depression experienced subclinical levels after treatment.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Today, clinicians have access to better tools to identify subclinical disease, including certain blood biomarkers found in lab tests and additional diagnostic imaging, such as coronary artery calcium scoring, that can detect subtle heart disease and inflammation long before symptoms appear.
    — Jia Shen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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