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clin⋅i⋅cal
[klin-i-kuh
l] 
–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.
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Language Translation for : Clinical
| Spanish: | clínico, | German: | klinisch, | Japanese: | 診察室の |
| clin·i·cal
(klĭn'ĭ-kəl) Pronunciation Key
adj.
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| clinical | |
adjective | |
| 1. | relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients; "clinical observation"; "clinical case study" |
| 2. | scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony" |
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clinical clin·i·cal (klĭn'ĭ-kəl)
adj.
- Relating to the bedside treatment of a patient or to the course of the disease.
- Relating to the observed symptoms and course of a disease.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Main Entry: clin·i·cal
Pronunciation: 'klin-i-k&l
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or conducted in or as if in a clinic: as a : involving or concerned with the direct observation and treatment of living patients
2 of a sacrament : administered on a sickbed or deathbed <clinical baptism> —clin·i·cal·ly /-k(&-)lE/ adverb
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Clinical
Clin"ic*al\, Clinic \Clin"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? bed, fr. ? to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. 2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
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