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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Danker said Pazdur was indecisive about the proposal to move to one clinical trial.
Food and Drug Administration is cancelling development of a new flu vaccine from biotech giant Moderna, with one unnamed senior FDA official calling the clinical trial a “brazen failure.”
From Salon
The law didn’t mandate that women be included in medical clinical research until 1993.
Some large clinical trials have suggested omega-3 supplements may lower cancer risk, while others have found no benefit or even a possible increase in cancer cases.
From Science Daily
Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a nonprofit organization focused on preventive medicine, clinical research, and improving ethical and scientific standards in education and research.
From Science Daily
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