Glossary of Terms

A metabolite is any substance produced during metabolism (digestion or other bodily chemical processes). The term metabolite may also refer to...

According to the World Health Organization, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronaviruses that was discovered in...

According to the World Health Organization, coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from...

Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) describes a wide range of brain-involved symptoms — symptoms like not thinking clearly, forgetting...

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease in which the body makes abnormal proteins in the blood called antiphospholipid...

A clinical study that lacks a comparison (i.e. a control) group. Source: NCI

A person, company, institution, group, or organization that oversees or pays for a clinical trial and collects and analyzes...

Describes the nature of a clinical study, such as interventional studies (also called clinical trials), observational studies, and expanded...

Refers to the type of documents that the study sponsor or PI may add to their study record. These...

A medicine, vitamin, mineral, food supplement, or a combination of them that is being tested in a clinical trial. Source:...