Clinical — can refer to: Clinical (or bedside) medical practice, based on observation and treatment of patients as opposed to theory or basic science Clinic Illness, a state of poor health Clinical chemistry, the analysis of bodily fluids Clinical… … Wikipedia
clinical — [klin′i kəl] adj. 1. of or connected with a clinic or a sickbed 2. having to do with the direct treatment and observation of patients, as distinguished from experimental or laboratory study 3. purely scientific; impersonal [clinical detachment] 4 … English World dictionary
clinical — adjective analytical, detached, dispassionate impersonal, imperturbable, unemotional, unimpressionable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
clinical — 1780, pertaining to hospital patients or hospital care, from CLINIC (Cf. clinic) + AL (Cf. al) (2). Meaning coldly dispassionate (like a medical report) is recorded from 1928. Related: Clinically … Etymology dictionary
clinical — [adj] dispassionate analytic, antiseptic, cold, detached, disinterested, emotionless, impersonal, objective, scientific, unemotional; concept 404 Ant. feeling, passionate, subjective … New thesaurus
clinical — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to the observation and treatment of patients (rather than theoretical studies). 2) efficient and coldly detached. 3) (of a place) bare, functional, and clean. DERIVATIVES clinically adverb … English terms dictionary
clinical — clin|i|cal [ klınıkl ] adjective ** 1. ) only before noun involving working with people who are sick, rather than in a laboratory: clinical trials: Clinical trials of the anti cancer drug have produced encouraging results. clinical practice:… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
clinical — clin|i|cal W3 [ˈklınıkəl] adj 1.) [only before noun] relating to treating or testing people who are sick ▪ The drug has undergone extensive clinical trials (=tests to see if it is effective in treating people) . clinical… … Dictionary of contemporary English
clinical — 1. Relating to the bedside of a patient or to the course of the disease. 2. Denoting the symptoms and course of a disease, as distinguished from the laboratory findings of anatomical changes. 3. Relating to a clinic. [G. kline, bed, + al] * * *… … Medical dictionary
clinical */*/ — UK [ˈklɪnɪk(ə)l] / US adjective 1) a) [only before noun] involving working with people who are ill, rather than in a laboratory clinical practice: Undergraduate training is divided between study and clinical practice. b) relating to an illness… … English dictionary
