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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. Arif Kamal:

    For example, Black women are less likely to be offered enrollment in a clinical trial. That is not because of a stated difference in interest. In fact, the enrollment rate in clinical trials is equal among Black women and White women, if they’re asked, what we have to understand is where the implicit and systemic biases held by patients and their caregivers and their families may exist – those that are held within health systems and even policies and practices that impede everyone having fair and just access to high quality health care.

  2. Marion Gruber:

    We are hearing that we need the vaccines soon and we need them soon in children because we do not know what the virus will be doing in fall and kids are back in school and indoors, if we wait too long and do these clinical trials with large numbers of pediatric subjects, we may not be ready to have these tools available when we need them.

  3. Andrew Pedtke:

    The important part is that we’re not just 3-D printing sockets here, we’re not just another tech company, the foundation of what we’re doing is built upon a gravestone of clinical understanding of the technology gap that exists in the physical therapy world.

  4. David Levin:

    The quality of those images is usually not very good. If you compare the quality of those kinds of studies with the quality of a study that was performed in a hospital in a radiology department or in a private radiology office, there is going to be no comparison, if a portable X-ray is absolutely necessary because of the patient’s clinical condition, then it’s justifiable.

  5. White House:

    To date, we have deployed over 2,000 personnel, including 1,300 clinical providers; surged over 3,200 ventilators, ambulances and other critical supplies; and shipped over 2.3 million courses of lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatment.

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