Meaning of CLINICAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'klinikul
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- [adj] scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"
- [adj] relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients; "clinical observation"; "clinical case study"
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| | Synonyms: | | nonsubjective, objective |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Clin"ic*al\, Clinic \Clin"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? bed,
fr. ? to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See {Lean}, v. i.]
1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease
in the living subject.
{Clinical baptism}, baptism administered to a person on a
sick bed.
{Clinical instruction}, instruction by means of clinics.
{Clinical lecture} (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics
illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living
patients.
{Clinical medicine}, {Clinical surgery}, that part of
medicine or surgery which is occupied with the
investigation of disease in the living subject.
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| | Definition: | | Having to do with the examination and treatment of patients. |
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