clinical
Americanadjective
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pertaining to a clinic.
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concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
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extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical.
She regarded him with clinical detachment.
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pertaining to or used in a sickroom.
a clinical bandage.
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Ecclesiastical.
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(of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
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(of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.
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adjective
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of or relating to a clinic
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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
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scientifically detached; strictly objective
a clinical attitude to life
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plain, simple, and usually unattractive
clinical furniture
Other Word Forms
- clinically adverb
- clinicalness noun
- nonclinical adjective
- nonclinically adverb
- overclinical adjective
- overclinically adverb
- semiclinical adjective
- semiclinically adverb
- unclinical adjective
Etymology
Origin of clinical
Example Sentences
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Given the devastating combination of big scoring and clinical finishing that Price has shown in recent weeks, it is little surprise that no-one but Littler has beaten him in the Premier League since week four.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
In late-stage clinical trials, Foundayo, which is also called orforglipron, helped people lose between 7.8% and 12.4% of their body weight after 72 weeks, depending on the dose.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
L.D., and Ph.D. candidate in the departments of applied clinical research and hypertension section, cardiology division, at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
The tests recently got a boost from influential clinical guidelines issued earlier this month by leading cardiology groups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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