a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. | ||||||||||||
2. | Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
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Adj. | 1. | clinical - 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. | clinical - scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony" |