clinical
pertaining to a clinic.
concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical: She regarded him with clinical detachment.
pertaining to or used in a sickroom: a clinical bandage.
Ecclesiastical.
(of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
(of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.
Origin of clinical
1Other words from clinical
- clin·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·clin·i·cal, adjective
- non·clin·i·cal·ly, adverb
- o·ver·clin·i·cal, adjective
- o·ver·clin·i·cal·ly, adverb
- sem·i·clin·i·cal, adjective
- sem·i·clin·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·clin·i·cal, adjective
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How to use clinical in a sentence
“I was expecting at-home approved tests, honestly, a month ago,” says Omai Garner, a clinical microbiologist and specialist in diagnostic devices at the University of California, Los Angeles Health System.
The FDA just okayed a rapid at-home COVID test—but it won’t work for everyone | Tara Santora | November 20, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe workaround could allow new vaccines for Zika, rabies, and more unfamiliar illnesses to reach large-scale clinical trials in less than a year.
It might not always take years to develop vaccines | Ula Chrobak | November 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAs a result, many important mechanisms for advancing treatments, including clinical trials for cardiovascular therapies, are not sufficiently representative of affected populations with implications for safety, efficacy, and trust in treatments.
Anthony Fauci said in a Today Show interview that high-risk Americans could receive the vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer, the other company with a promising vaccine in late clinical trials, as early as late December.
You can get COVID-19 and the flu at the same time | Rachael Zisk | November 16, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIf both vaccines continue to do well in clinical trials, the United States could soon have two coronavirus vaccines available for those most at risk.
Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective | Erin Garcia de Jesus | November 16, 2020 | Science News
Born in Kuwait, Jason languished in college in the States (“It was a cultural thing”) and says he became clinically depressed.
The Secret World of Pickup Artist Julien Blanc | Brandy Zadrozny | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDeath is considered both legally and clinically to have occurred by either of these two categories.
A Tragedy Compounded: The Heart-Wrenching Case of Jahi McMath May Have Devastating Consequences to Organ Donation | Soumitra R. Eachempati, MD | January 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen the researchers would move on to step two: suppose they found the clinically significant reduction they were hoping for?
No, Really, It's Possible That Health Insurance May Not Make Us Healthier | Megan McArdle | May 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIs their study designed in such a way that a clinically significant result would also be statistically significant?
No, Really, It's Possible That Health Insurance May Not Make Us Healthier | Megan McArdle | May 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn one week, Mubarak has had heart attacks, a brain clot, and was pronounced clinically dead—are his doctors really that good?
Hosni Mubarak Rumors Swirl Before Election Results Announced | Vivian Salama | June 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat such an effect does actually take place has been demonstrated clinically in literally thousands of cases.
As clinically met with, the patches present are, as a rule, in all stages of development.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonClinically they may exactly resemble each other, and bacteriology has not been able to draw an absolute line between them.
Clinically it is often difficult to determine before operation which variety is present.
He pointed out that Marfan was the first to employ this substance clinically.
British Dictionary definitions for clinical
/ (ˈklɪnɪkəl) /
of or relating to a clinic
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
scientifically detached; strictly objective: a clinical attitude to life
plain, simple, and usually unattractive: clinical furniture
Derived forms of clinical
- clinically, adverb
- clinicalness, noun
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