clinical

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more clinical

Superlative

most clinical

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

clinicals

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Of or pertaining to a clinic, such as a medical clinic or law clinic.

   • Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.

2. 2.Cool and emotionless, in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.

3. 3.Objective; analytical.

   • We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts.

4. 4.Dealing with the practical management of patients, in practice at the point of care; as contrasted with other health care venues (see clinical medicine for more explanation).

   • “We are social beings,” Jaime Blandino, a clinical psychologist in Decatur, Georgia, told CNN. “My most extroverted clients are having the hardest time.”

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.

Overall

Uncommon· #2480

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Rare

Word family

• clinic