What does clinical mean?

Definitions for clinical
ˈklɪn ɪ kəlclin·i·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clinicaladjective

    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"

  2. clinicaladjective

    scientifically detached; unemotional

    "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"

Wiktionary

  1. clinicaladjective

    of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.

  2. clinicaladjective

    dealing with how to practically manage patients, contrasting with pre-health sciences

  3. clinicaladjective

    done in a cool, emotionless fashion.

  4. Etymology: clinic + -al.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Clinical, Clinickadjective

    Those that keep their beds; those that are sick, past hopes of recovery. A clinical convert, one that is converted on his death-bed. This word occurs often in the works of Taylor.

    Etymology: ϰλίνω, to lie down.

ChatGPT

  1. clinical

    Clinical refers to the observation and treatment of actual patients, as opposed to theoretical or laboratory studies. It typically involves direct observation, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of patients within a healthcare setting such as a hospital or clinic.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Clinicalverb

    alt. of Clinic

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'clinical' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3204

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'clinical' in Adjectives Frequency: #446

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clinical in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clinical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of clinical in a Sentence

  1. Jamie Zeitzer:

    However, the treatments that are developed for jet lag can be used for less prevalent, though far more significant societal problems including delayed sleep in teens( in whom we have an ongoing clinical trial using the flash technique) and shift workers who try to flip between a night time schedule for work and a day time schedule for leisure.

  2. San Diego:

    That is the golden question: What are the actual health consequences from the chronic exposure over the past 20-plus years? surprisingly, little human clinical or epidemiological research has been done on this.

  3. Alex Azar:

    Two vaccines, each with 95 % efficacy, rivaling the 98 % efficacy of our measles vaccine. Produced in some of the largest vaccine clinical trials ever conducted in history. Over 40,000 patients in each of these clinical trials demonstrating good safety profiles.

  4. Anthony Fauci:

    The claim, based on no data, juxtaposed on clear-cut clinical data showing that hydroxychloroquine does not work, if one propagates this concept that hydroxychloroquine is highly effective and people take it based on that information, which is incorrect, yes, that would be misinformation or even disinformation that could lead people to take a drug that would not help them, that could possibly hurt them.

  5. Dana Johnson:

    It flies in the face of decades of scientific and clinical evidence, the fact that this lawsuit can undercut something that we know that is extremely safe, extremely effective, and is one of the most accessible ways right now to get an abortion, I think, is absolutely terrifying.

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