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clinical definition

clini·cal (klin′i kəl)

adjective

  1. of or connected with a clinic or a sickbed
  2. having to do with the direct treatment and observation of patients, as distinguished from experimental or laboratory study
  3. purely scientific; impersonal clinical detachment
  4. austere, antiseptic, etc., like a medical clinic

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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