Clinical
Clinical (klin"ik*al) , adjective
[Greek kliniko`s, from kli`nh bed, from kli`nein to lean, recline: compare French 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.
Collocations (4)
Clinical baptism , baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.
Clinical instruction , instruction by means of clinics.
Clinical lecture (Medicine) , a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.
Clinical medicine or Clinical surgery , that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
Also: Clinic