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clinical
[ klin-i-kuhl ]
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.
- (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
- (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.
clinical
/ ˈklɪnɪkəl /
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 directly
a clinical lecture
clinical medicine
- scientifically detached; strictly objective
a clinical attitude to life
- plain, simple, and usually unattractive
clinical furniture
Derived Forms
- ˈclinicalness, noun
- ˈclinically, adverb
Other Words From
- clini·cal·ly adverb
- non·clini·cal adjective
- non·clini·cal·ly adverb
- over·clini·cal adjective
- over·clini·cal·ly adverb
- semi·clini·cal adjective
- semi·clini·cal·ly adverb
- un·clini·cal adjective
Example Sentences
The hearing was told that Ms Robinson had contacted him outside her work hours without clinical justification, breaching professional boundaries.
The Fremont, Calif., company he co-founded in 2016 doesn’t receive federal money, but its technology and clinical trails are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
It’s not prescribed in the UK, but academics here and in the US are working on clinical trials looking into it.
Clinical trials have produced conflicting results about screening.
Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of "Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President."
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