clinical
Use Clinical in a sentence
ɪ 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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World English Dictionary
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| —adj | |
| 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 |
| 'clinically | |
| —adv | |
| 'clinicalness | |
| —n | |
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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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Example sentences
But clinical trials of legitimate gene-therapy methods have run into hitches.
Clinical courses are require much more faculty contact time than a substantive course.
She is seeing a clinical psychologist on campus to better understand what caused the hair-pulling incident.
Clinical trials require a large group of people to be followed over many years.
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