Currently the McDonald criteria are considered a clinical definition of MS.

Those who did not have the combination of symptoms in the clinical definition might also be suffering, Dr. Galea added.

"There are a number of people with debilitating symptoms over and above those who meet the clinical definition," he said.

Only 10 percent met the current clinical definition of bulimia, she said.

He did not even know the clinical definition.

Engraved on an aluminum sheet is the elaborate clinical definition of a mouth and lips, copied from an anatomy book.

There is widespread agreement that 8 to 15 percent of new mothers develop symptoms serious enough to come within clinical definitions of depression.

In these contexts, the syndrome is rarely referred to without abbreviation, and the connotations of the reference are frequently more broad than the clinical definition.

The clinical definition of resistance is a 95% or less reduction in a "Fecal Egg Count" test.

The clinical "definition" of the disorder is when an affected person is able to copy/draw things that they cannot recognize.