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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.Ìý

    1. (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.

    2. (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.



clinical

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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • clinically adverb
  • nonclinical adjective
  • nonclinically adverb
  • overclinical adjective
  • overclinically adverb
  • semiclinical adjective
  • semiclinically adverb
  • unclinical adjective
  • ˈ³¦±ô¾±²Ô¾±³¦²¹±ô²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
  • ˈ³¦±ô¾±²Ô¾±³¦²¹±ô±ô²â adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of clinical1

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

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Responses from more than a quarter suggested signs of clinical depression.

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In typically clinical fashion, they took this early chance as captain Conan peeled off the back of the maul and powered over.

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"A lot of that is down to clinical availability, but also premises," she said.

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Myeloma cannot be cured, but clinical trials last year showed the Trojan horse therapy halted the cancer for three years, compared to 13 months with current therapies.

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The court heard there were no emails or evidence in Alice's clinical notes and records to corroborate this.

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