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clinical

[ klin-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to a clinic.
  2. concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
  3. extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical:

    She regarded him with clinical detachment.

  4. pertaining to or used in a sickroom:

    a clinical bandage.

  5. Ecclesiastical.
    1. (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
    2. (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.


clinical

/ ˈɪɪə /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a clinic
  2. 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

  3. scientifically detached; strictly objective

    a clinical attitude to life

  4. plain, simple, and usually unattractive

    clinical furniture

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Derived Forms

  • ˈԾԱ, noun
  • ˈԾ, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • i·· adverb
  • ԴDz·i· adjective
  • non·i·· adverb
  • v·i· adjective
  • over·i·· adverb
  • i·i· adjective
  • semi·i·· adverb
  • ܲ·i· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clinical1

First recorded in 1770–80; clinic + -al 1
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Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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In most states, currently, only physicians and clinical psychologists can formally diagnose autism.

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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.

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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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