clinical trial vs trial

trial vs clinical trial

clinical trial and trial both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
clinical trial	Yes	No	No	No
trial	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trial is a hypernym of clinical trial; that is, trial is a word with a broader meaning than clinical trial:

clinical trial: a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use
trial: the act of testing something

Other hypernyms of clinical trial include run, test.

clinical trial (noun)	trial (noun)
a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use	the act of testing something
	(law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
	the act of undergoing testing
	trying something to find out about it
	an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
	(sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications

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