adj 1  :  of, relating to, or based on experience or experiment  2  :  founded on or derived from experiment <the heart of the method is the direct control of the thing studied -B. F. Skinner>   3  of a disease  :  intentionally produced esp. in laboratory animals for the purpose of study < diabetes>  ex*per*i*men*tal*ly adv 
 
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