Glossary of Terms

Connective tissue is the material inside your body that supports many of its parts. It is the "cellular glue"...

The clinical study has ended normally, and participants are no longer being examined or treated (that is, the "last...

A laboratory evaluation of all the cells that circulate in the blood, including the number and the hemoglobin content...

The complement system is made up of about 25 proteins that work together to assist, or “complement,” the action...

The term “comorbidity” describes two or more disorders or illnesses occurring in the same person. They can occur at...

Collagen is the major insoluble fibrous protein in the extracellular matrix and in connective tissue. In fact, it is...

A collaborator is an organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This may include...

A group of individuals who share a common trait, such as birth year. In medicine, a cohort is a...

Cognitive impairment is defined as any difficulty with normal thought functions or processes, such as thinking, learning, or remembering....

Thinking skills, including language use, calculation, perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, learning, intellect, social skills, and imagination.

Clinical studies that are no longer recruiting participants because they have enough participants already, because they are completed, or...

A clinical trial is a prospective biomedical or behavioral research study of human subjects that is designed to answer...