clinical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients

   clinical observation

2. 2
   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).

   “We are social beings,” Jaime Blandino, a clinical psychologist in Decatur, Georgia, told CNN. “My most extroverted clients are having the hardest time.”

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Objective; analytical.

   We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts.

5. 5
   adj

   Excellent and precise.

   Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson put his below-par performance against Argentina behind him with a fine first-half showing, slotting four kicks from six and controlling his back-line with aplomb, while England's three-quarters were brimming with life and clinical with their execution.

6. 6
   adj

   Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed.

   a clinical convert: one who turns to religion on their death-bed

7. 7
   adj

   scientifically detached

8. 8
   adj

   Cool and emotionless, in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.

Etymology

From clinic + -al.