CLINICALLY

clinically

(adverb) in a clinical manner; “she is clinically qualified”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

clinically (comparative more clinically, superlative most clinically)

In a clinical manner; dispassionately or analytically.

In the setting of a medical clinic; in a clinical setting.

At a person's bedside.

a person baptised clinically

Source: Wiktionary


Clin"ic*al*ly, adv.

Definition: In a clinical manner.

CLINICAL

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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