CLINICAL
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
Etymology
Adjective
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.
Noun
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
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