They called the disorder a new clinical entity.

As a clinical entity, the occurrence of colorectal foreign bodies rises dramatically every year.

It has come to be recognized as a clinical entity.

However, the roots of the diagnosis and treatment of this clinical entity are found earlier.

These cases might represent a new clinical entity like toxic shock.

They might even represent some new, serious clinical entity.

When it occurs in early childhood, it can be regarded as a distinct clinical entity.

The context is usually one of a well defined clinical or pathological entity, which the case at hand almost - but not quite - fits.

LAD was first recognized as a distinct clinical entity in the 1970s.

Others see it as a distinct clinical entity, which is less culture-bound than these critics assert.