clinical
Americanadjective
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pertaining to a clinic.
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concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
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extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical.
She regarded him with clinical detachment.
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pertaining to or used in a sickroom.
a clinical bandage.
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Ecclesiastical.
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(of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
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(of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.
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adjective
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of or relating to a clinic
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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
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scientifically detached; strictly objective
a clinical attitude to life
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plain, simple, and usually unattractive
clinical furniture
Other Word Forms
- clinically adverb
- clinicalness noun
- nonclinical adjective
- nonclinically adverb
- overclinical adjective
- overclinically adverb
- semiclinical adjective
- semiclinically adverb
- unclinical adjective
Etymology
Origin of clinical
Example Sentences
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Roche Holding said a drug candidate for multiple sclerosis met the primary goal in a late-stage clinical trial in the most common form of the disease.
Critics alleged that the team once known for inventive, free-flowing soccer had become coldly clinical.
"I could feel the nervousness inside the stadium," Slot said, after a strange game where Liverpool were clinical if not always in control.
From BBC
Tilly was part of a gene therapy clinical trial at Sheffield Children's Hospital in 2024 to try to help reduce seizures connected to her condition.
From BBC
Neuralink is also running a clinical trial for an implant designed to restore speech.
From MarketWatch
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