See Also: clinical medicine(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Kennedy classification(medicine)
Kennedy, William(encyclopedia)
Kennedy, Jackie(dictionary)
Kennedy Center(dictionary)
Kennedy, William(medicine)
Cape Kennedy(dictionary)
Kennedy, Edward(medicine)

Kennedy's disease (medicine) and clinical (iou)


Kennedy's disease (medicine)


Kennedy's disease
<neurology> An X-linked recessive disorder characterised by progressive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; associated features include distal degeneration of sensory axons, and signs of endocrine dysfunction, including diabetes mellitus, gynaecomastia, and testicular atrophy.

Inheritance: X-linked recessive.


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.