American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - adj. Of, relating to, or connected with a clinic. -
adj. Involving or based on direct observation of the patient: a
clinical diagnosis. - adj. Very objective and devoid of emotion;
analytical: "He spoke in the clipped, clinical monotones typical
of police testimony in court” ( Connie Paige). - adj. Suggestive
of a medical clinic; austere and antiseptic: a clinical style of
decor. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - Pertaining to a sick-
bed; pertaining to a clinic. - adj. of or pertaining to a
medical clinic or facility. - adj. dealing with how to
practically manage patients, contrasting with pre-health
sciences - adj. done in a cool, emotionless fashion. GNU
Webster's 1913 - adj. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a
sick bed. - adj. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study
of disease in the living subject. - adj. relating to a clinic or
conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct
observation of patients - adj. scien