Clinical /(klĭn"ĭk*al)/
Clin·ic·al
Clinical
a.
- Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
- Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Phrases & Compounds
- Clinical baptism
- baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.
- Clinical instruction
- instruction by means of clinics.
- Clinical lecture
- a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.
- Clinical medicine
- that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.