clinical
/ˈklɪn.ɪ.kəl/ adjective, noun
Forms clinicals
- adjective (medicine) 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).
- adjective 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.”
- adjective Cool and emotionless, in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.
- adjective Objective; analytical. “We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts.”
- adjective Excellent and precise.
- adjective (obsolete) Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed. “a clinical convert: one who turns to religion on their death-bed”
- noun (education) A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.
Synonyms
unemotional alexithymic apathistical dull phlegmatic cold-blooded cold-hearted dead inside dispassionate emotionless immovable impassible impassive insensible nonemotional nonfeeling nonpassionate nonsentimental stolid unfeeling
Antonyms
Etymology
Gr. clinique. See Lean, v. i.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. -- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “clinical”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details