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."

Example Sentences

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clinically

At 12 months, 80% of participants who completed the pain assessment exceeded the clinically meaningful improvement threshold.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

On New Year's Eve of 2019 Sandra McCartney was clinically dead for 10 minutes.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

"With coordinated engagement between academia, clinicians, and industry, vanillin has the potential to progress from an underutilized bioactive to a clinically deployable component of next-generation wound care and regenerative therapeutics," says Professor Vasilev.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Little separated the pair in the third set, but the veteran struck again at 5-4 on Zverev's serve to clinically seal victory.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

I see now why he takes such a clinically distant approach to his work.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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