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clinical
[ klin-i-kuhl ]
adjective
- pertaining to a clinic.
- concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
- extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical:
She regarded him with clinical detachment.
- pertaining to or used in a sickroom:
a clinical bandage.
- Ecclesiastical.
- (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
- (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.
clinical
/ ˈɪɪə /
adjective
- of or relating to a clinic
- of or relating to the bedside of a patient, the course of his disease, or the observation and treatment of patients directly
a clinical lecture
clinical medicine
- scientifically detached; strictly objective
a clinical attitude to life
- plain, simple, and usually unattractive
clinical furniture
Derived Forms
- ˈԾԱ, noun
- ˈԾ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- i·· adverb
- ԴDz·i· adjective
- non·i·· adverb
- v·i· adjective
- over·i·· adverb
- i·i· adjective
- semi·i·· adverb
- ܲ·i· adjective
Example Sentences
In last year's fixture, Mitchell's side remained clinical throughout to clinch a third successive Grand Slam with a 42-21 win in Bordeaux.
The author is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and teaches psychiatry residents as a clinical assistant professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
In most states, currently, only physicians and clinical psychologists can formally diagnose autism.
But then his mum heard about a clinical trial at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London that would change her son's life.
Dr Edward Morris, NHS England's regional medical director and chief clinical information officer for East of England, said it was "crucial" anyone with cancer symptoms "gets checked as soon as possible".
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