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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.
a.
(of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
b.
(of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.
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Clinical
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Example Sentences
- Clinical courses are require much more faculty contact time than a substantive course.
- Human clinical trials are scheduled to take place next year.
- In routine clinical interviews with doctors, the patients admitted they had been gambling too much.
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Medical Dictionary
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.
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