clinical

Plural: clinicals

Adjective

• relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients
  • "clinical observation"
  • "clinical case study"

Adjective Satellite

• scientifically detached; unemotional
  • "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"

Adj

• 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).
• Of or pertaining to a clinic, such as a medical clinic or law clinic.
• Cool and emotionless, in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.
• Objective; analytical.
• Excellent and precise.
• Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed.

Noun

• A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.

Examples

• a clinical convert: one who turns to religion on their death-bed
• clinical baptism
• Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.
• We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts.

Synonyms

accurate, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, exact, immovable, impassible, impassive, insensible, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonsentimental, stolid, unemotional, unfeeling, unmovable, unpassionate, unsentimental

Antonyms

nonclinical

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