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Clinical

//ˈklɪnɪkəl// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Dealing with the practical management of patients, in practice at the point of care; as contrasted with other health care venues (see clinical medicine for more explanation).

    "“We are social beings,” Jaime Blandino, a clinical psychologist in Decatur, Georgia, told CNN. “My most extroverted clients are having the hardest time.”"

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to a clinic, such as a medical clinic or law clinic.

    "Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home."

  3. 3
    Cool and emotionless, in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.
  4. 4
    Objective; analytical.

    "We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts."

  5. 5
    Excellent and precise.

    "Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson put his below-par performance against Argentina behind him with a fine first-half showing, slotting four kicks from six and controlling his back-line with aplomb, while England's three-quarters were brimming with life and clinical with their execution."

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  1. 6
    Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed. obsolete

    "a clinical convert: one who turns to religion on their death-bed"

Adjective
  1. 1
    scientifically detached; unemotional wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From clinic + -al.

Etymology 2

From clinic + -al.

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