clinical
(adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional; “he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony”
clinical
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
clinical (comparative more clinical, superlative most clinical)
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.
(medicine) Dealing with practical management of patients; contrasting with prehealth sciences.
Cool and emotionless.
(obsolete) Of or relating to a bed.
clinical (plural clinicals)
(education) A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.
Source: Wiktionary
Clin"ic*al, Clin"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. 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 illustrared 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
