clinically

American  

[kli-nik-lee] / ˈklɪ nɪk li /

adverb

1. in a clinical way.

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Explanation

When a medication has been clinically proven, it's been tested on actual patients. Clinically can also describe a cold and detached manner, a personality better suited to robots than people. It's a good thing when doctors and scientists do things clinically, because they're not only using studies and statistics to make decisions — they're talking to and observing patients. On the other hand, when a doctor treats you clinically at your yearly appointment, she is efficient but aloof, rather than warm and welcoming. Clinically is from clinical, from the Latin clinicus, "physician who visits patients in their beds," with the Greek root klinike, "at the sickbed."

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clinically

One major concern involves weight loss that occurs before dementia becomes clinically apparent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Both studies, however, were done in patients with clinically detectable Stage 3 cancer.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

They said that Hurts was clinically stable and would be placed on blood thinners, prohibiting him from participating in contact activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“He is clinically stable and has no significant functional limitations,” the Eagles and Lynn said in their statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

“We were clinically depressed,” said one of the several analysts Burry employed but never figured out what to do with, as he insisted on doing all the analysis himself.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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