Hypertext Webster Gateway: "clinical"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clinical \Clin"ic*al\, Clinic \Clin"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? bed,
fr. ? to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See {Lean}, v. i.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
clinical
adj 1: 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: scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the
clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"
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