See Also: Associated Clinical Lab(health)
clinical(dictionary)
clinical(dictionary)
Clinical(medicine)
Clinical(health)
Cytogenetics, clinical(health)
cytogenetics, clinical(medicine)
clinical thermometer(dictionary)
disease, clinical(medicine)
epidemiology, clinical(medicine)

clinical (iou)



clinical adjective. L18.
[formed as CLINIC noun1 & adjective + -AL1.]
Medicine. Designating or pertaining to teaching given at the bedside of a sick person, esp. in a hospital, and (branches of) medicine involving the study or care of actual patients. L18.
clinical death: judged by direct observation of the individual's condition. clinical medicine: based on the observed symptoms. clinical THERMOMETER.
Ecclesiastical. Administered at the sickbed to one likely to die. Cf. CLINIC adjective. M19.
Coldly detached and impersonal; objective, dispassionate. E20.
b. Bare and functional, like a hospital. M20.
clinically adverb in a clinical manner; as regards clinical medicine, from the point of view of clinical medicine: M19.