Definitions for clinical

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clinical clin·i·cal

Spelling: [klin-i-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈklɪn ɪ kəl/

Clinical is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in clinical (acciilln).

Definitions for clinical

adjective

1. pertaining to a clinic.
2. concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
3. extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical:
4. pertaining to or used in a sickroom:
5. Ecclesiastical. (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed. (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.

Origin of clinical

First recorded in 1770-80; clinic + -al¹

Examples for clinical

“Your children are beautiful,” the audience member, who identified herself as a clinical social worker, began.

clinical observation has not yet gained much by these methods.

Throughout her life, she faced public ridicule, legal persecution and, eventually, redemption through a PhD in clinical sexology.

clinical observation supports this contention in many cases.

She had enrolled at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach in order to work towards a degree in clinical sexology.

Such, then, are some "cases" discussed in a sort of clinical lecture.

Dr. Grenci obtained her doctorate in clinical sexology in 2007.

I also attended regularly the clinical wards in the hospital.

First, there is the little ceremony of the clinical thermometers.

In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.