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• 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 — Clin ic*al (kl[i^]n [i^]k*al), Clinic Clin ic (kl[i^]n [i^]k), a. [Gr. kliniko s, fr. kli nh bed, fr. kli nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See {Lean}, v. i.] 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• 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