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nonclinical


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: She regarded him with clinical detachment.
  4. pertaining to or used in a sickroom: a clinical bandage.
  5. Ecclesiastical.
    1. (of a sacrament) administered on a deathbed or sickbed.
    2. (of a convert or conversion) made on a deathbed or sickbed.

adjective

  1. of or relating to a clinic
  2. of or relating to the bedside of a patient, the course of his disease, or the observation and treatment of patients directlya clinical lecture; clinical medicine
  3. scientifically detached; strictly objectivea clinical attitude to life
  4. plain, simple, and usually unattractiveclinical furniture

adj.1780, “pertaining to hospital patients or hospital care,” from clinic + -al (2). Meaning “coldly dispassionate” (like a medical report) is recorded from 1928. Related: Clinically. adj.

  1. Relating to the bedside treatment of a patient or to the course of the disease.
  2. Relating to the observed symptoms and course of a disease.
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