Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or connected with a clinic.
- adj. Involving or based on direct observation of the patient: a clinical diagnosis.
- adj. Very objective and devoid of emotion; analytical: "He spoke in the clipped, clinical monotones typical of police testimony in court” ( Connie Paige).
- adj. Suggestive of a medical clinic; austere and antiseptic: a clinical style of decor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a sick-bed; pertaining to a clinic.
Wiktionary
- adj. of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.
- adj. dealing with how to practically manage patients, contrasting with pre-health sciences
- adj. done in a cool, emotionless fashion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
- adj. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients
- adj. scientifically detached; unemotional.
Etymologies
- clinic + -al. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mental illness: When people believe they change into an animal form theriomorphosis, or possess supernatural non-human animal traits, the term clinical lycanthropy is often used.”
“I know the term clinical depression quite well because I am taking anti depressants at the moment.”
“I have a question which picks up on a theme that Dr. Sachs has put forth in the past which he called clinical economics, meaning that you need to look at the specifics, a particular locale, to determine what's necessary.”
“We did this for Isabelle, but what we want to do is to start a mechanism which after the additional clinical research phase make it possible -- we'll, carried out by our two teams, cooperating in the framework of what we call a clinical hospital search program.”
“This is what we call the clinical state of depression.”
“What we have seen though is because and I go back to using probably this word too much the value proposition of Linkia that saves them administrative costs and gives them what we call clinical simplicity in that we measure customer satisfaction and quality and ensure certification, Linkia has been able to increase prices, not off the charts but in commensurate with the value they are delivering.”
“I would first like to discuss our custom development pipeline, which we define as clinical and preclinical phase projects.”
“Used to prevent transparency in clinical trial data.”
“But evidence from current epidemiological studies and short-term clinical trials has already detailed what we can do now to delay the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms.”
The Huffington Post: Gary W. Small, M.D.: Can We Cure Alzheimer's Disease?
“GlaxoSmithKline and other drug companies that market quit-smoking aids must prove in clinical studies that the products are safe and effective before the FDA permits their sale.”
The Wall Street Journal: Glaxo Aims to Snub Out 'Dissolvable' Tobacco Items
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clinical’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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OED word of the Day
Just like it says
majority, plasm, apal, statin, legerdemain, leap year, daffodil, maternal, key worker, jojoba, skelf, pose and 101 more...
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icky crawly
slacks, blouse, moist, clerical, clinical, frothy, creamy, cornucopia, cold cuts, creationism, patchouli
Tweets
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travismcdermott 1780 Ann. Reg. 216 Dr. John Parsons was unanimously elected Clinical Professor to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford. May 13, 2008