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
When her training was complete, Raderman, who hopes to become a clinical psychologist some day, volunteered for as many Teen Line shifts as she could get.
For clinical trials with thousands of participants, testing is a tedious, time-consuming endeavor, and there aren’t many robust findings yet.
Covid-19 vaccines are great — but you still need to wear a mask for now | Umair Irfan | February 9, 2021 | VoxAround 40% of vaccine candidates in efficacy tests, called phase 2 clinical trials, proved successful, a rate 10 times that of cancer drugs.
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | David Rotman | February 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewUsing his clinical acumen as well as scientific judgment, he was able to combine the most effective medicines to achieve the landmark cure that galvanized the world of cancer.
Emil Freireich, a pioneer of chemotherapy and a ‘towering figure in oncology,’ dies at 93 | Emily Langer | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostIn the third week of 2021, clinical laboratories nationwide tested 23,549 specimens for influenza.
How COVID-19 Ended Flu Season Before It Started | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | February 4, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Your children are beautiful,” the audience member, who identified herself as a clinical social worker, began.
As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.
Bubonic Plague Is Back (but It Never Really Left) | Kent Sepkowitz | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDr. Grenci obtained her doctorate in clinical sexology in 2007.
She had enrolled at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach in order to work towards a degree in clinical sexology.
Results are easily and quickly obtained, and are probably accurate enough for all clinical purposes.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddQuantitative estimation does not furnish much of definite clinical value.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddQuantitative estimation of the total sulphates yields little of clinical value.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIt is at best an empirical test and must be interpreted in the light of clinical symptoms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Toddclinical study of the blood may be discussed under the following heads: I. Hemoglobin.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
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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