clinical

[klin-i-kuh l]

adjective

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.
1. (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
2. (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.

Origin of clinical

First recorded in 1770–80; clinic + -al¹

Related formsclin·i·cal·ly, adverbnon·clin·i·cal, adjectivenon·clin·i·cal·ly, adverbo·ver·clin·i·cal, adjectiveo·ver·clin·i·cal·ly, adverbsem·i·clin·i·cal, adjectivesem·i·clin·i·cal·ly, adverbun·clin·i·cal, adjective

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Examples from the Web for clinically

Contemporary Examples of clinically

Death is considered both legally and clinically to have occurred by either of these two categories.
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Then the researchers would move on to step two: suppose they found the clinically significant reduction they were hoping for?
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May 7, 2013
Is their study designed in such a way that a clinically significant result would also be statistically significant?
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Megan McArdle
May 7, 2013
As such, scientific information once again has gotten way out front of the clinically practical.
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June 8, 2012
Over the past 50 years, the proportion of Americans who are clinically obese has increased by 2.5-fold.
The Only Logical Way to End the Obesity Epidemic
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January 28, 2012

Historical Examples of clinically

Clinically it varies in kind and degree according to the situation in which it develops.
Benign Stupors
August Hoch
Clinically the typhoid toxin appears to cause the early production of arteriosclerosis.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:
Louis Marshall Warfield
This observation has been recently substantiated by Hultgen, who carefully studied clinically 460 cases of chronic alcoholism.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:
Louis Marshall Warfield
Clinically speaking, then, hyperpietic arteriosclerosis is not a disease, but a mechanical result of disease.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:
Louis Marshall Warfield
And these are precisely the characteristics which they present clinically, and such as we might have, a priori, expected to find.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II
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British Dictionary definitions for clinically

clinical

adjective

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 directlya clinical lecture; clinical medicine
scientifically detached; strictly objectivea clinical attitude to life
plain, simple, and usually unattractiveclinical furniture

Derived Formsclinically, adverbclinicalness, noun

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Word Origin and History for clinically

clinical

adj.

1780, "pertaining to hospital patients or hospital care," from clinic + -al (2). Meaning "coldly dispassionate" (like a medical report) is recorded from 1928. Related: Clinically.

clinically in Medicine

clinical

[klĭn′ĭ-kəl]

adj.

Relating to the bedside treatment of a patient or to the course of the disease.
Relating to the observed symptoms and course of a disease.