clinicaladj.

Brit.

/ˈklɪnᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˈklɪnək(ə)l/

Etymology: Formed as clinic adj.¹ + -al suffix¹.

1. Medicine. Of or relating to the sickbed, spec. to that of indoor hospital patients: used in connection with the practical instruction given to medical students at the sickbeds in hospitals; e.g. clinical clerk, one who accompanies a hospital-physician in the wards, and keeps records of the cases; clinical lecture, a lecture at the bedside of the patient upon his case; clinical medicine, clinical surgery, medicine or surgery as learnt or taught at the bedside, ‘usually applied to hospital practice in which the physician, in going round the wards, comments upon the cases under his care’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.), hence clinical physician, clinical surgeon; clinical thermometer, a thermometer for ascertaining the patient's temperature.

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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical training > [adjective] > parts of training

clinic1719

clinical1780

premedical1893

preclinical1907

preregistration1916

pre-med1918

1780 Ann. Reg. 216 Dr. John Parsons was unanimously elected Clinical Professor to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford.

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 161 The cultivation of clinical medicine, or the actual superintendence of the treatment of diseases.

1835 St. Thomas' Hosp. Rep. 83 I will give you the words of my clinical clerk.

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 105 An exceedingly simple..form of microscope for the purposes of clinical instruction.

1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea ii. 16 A clinical thermometer was inserted into the mouth.

1889 London Hosp. & Med. Coll. Prospectus 16 Graduates..admitted to three months' Clinical Clerkship or Dressership.

2. Christian Church. Administered on the sickbed to one in danger of death.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > private, for sick person > [adjective]

clinica1631

clinical1844

1844 Eng. Saints, St. German ii. 17 After the Baptism he received on the bed of sickness, which the ancients called Clinical baptism.

1846 C. Maitland Church in Catacombs 120 Unless in danger of death, when a clinical or death-bed reconciliation was permitted.

1855 N. Wiseman Fabiola 375 Clinical baptism..was administered by pouring or sprinkling the water on the head.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 239 The baptism of Rome and England [is] stigmatized [by the Greek Church] as ‘clinical’ only.

a. Coldly detached and dispassionate, like a medical report or examination; diagnostic or therapeutic, like medical investigation or treatment; treating a subject matter as if it were a case of disease, esp. with close attention to detail; serving as part of a case-study. Also in combinations.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally detached

queamishc1430

squeamish1561

dry1637

unconcerned1660

inconcerned1688

aloof1872

stocky1876

detached1913

clinical1928

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > careful and detached

clinical1928

1928 F. Hurst President is Born xxxii. 326 Bek would never have permitted Winslow to behold her..bartering in the clinical phraseology of the cattle-pen over bull or stallion or sow.

1934 H. Nicolson Curzon: Last Phase 65 As an ‘exhibit’ in any clinical examination of the mentality of the victors in the European War she [sc. Turkey] is unsurpassed.

1937 C. Isherwood Lions & Shadows 191 He peppered his work liberally with such terms as ‘eutectic’, ‘sigmoid curve’, ‘Arch-Monad’, ‘ligature’, ‘gastropod’; seeking thereby to produce what he himself described as a ‘clinical’ effect. To be ‘clinically minded’ was, he said, the first duty of a poet.

1944 H. Treece Herbert Read 9 I have selected a passage..as a clinical exhibit of adolescent self-repression.

1947 W. Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity (ed. 2) p. ix The effort of writing a good bit of verse has..been carried through almost as a clinical thing; it was done only to save the man's own sanity.

1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 27 ‘I suppose the twitching is just reflex action.’ Dinah's tone was clinical.

1953 S. Spender Creative Elem. 146 Auden..showed..a gift for inventing clinical-seeming images.

1957 Times 30 Sept. 14/6 Supreme skill on its own [in lawn tennis] without any major goal tends to become cold, clinical, and without feeling.

1958 Daily Mail 13 Mar. 1/1 Unemployment figures..were studied with..almost clinical interest.

b. Bare and functional, like a hospital.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective]

cleanc897

fair?c1225

netc1330

cleanly1340

unspotted1382

blotless?a1400

unwemmeda1400

spotlessc1400

neat1494

unblotted1548

unstained1555

stainlessa1586

exempt1586

unsoiledc1592

undefiled1596

unsullied1598

dirtlessa1618

immaculatea1631

innocent1645

unsmeared1648

unsmutched1809

speckless1827

spandy-clean1838

unblackened1864

soilless1868

smudgeless1924

clinical1932

squeaky clean1975

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > simplicity > [adjective]

plainc1330

simplea1382

neat1453

natural1553

austere1581

bare1583

unintricated1649

severe1665

clever1674

light1740

ungaudy1795

unassuminga1807

inartificial1823

quiet1838

unpretentious1838

unabstract1840

uninvolved1853

penny-plain1854

simplex munditiis1874

unstagy1882

clinical1932

shibui1947

understated1957

1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces xii. 321 Her almost clinical bathroom.

1956 N. Cardus in Bedside Guardian V. 144 Would the interior look clinical,..would the architecture and ornamentation strike a chill to the heart?

Draft additions April 2010

clinical pharmacology n. Medicine the branch of pharmacology that deals with the use of drugs in the treatment and prevention of disease.

ΚΠ

1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Dec. 1753 The official course of study is as follows:..Fourth Year.—Surgical Anatomy, Clinical Pharmacology, Special Mediacl and Surgical Pathology, [etc.].

1907 Monthly Cycl. Pract. Med. Oct. 444 Investigations in laboratory and clinical pharmacology.

1961 Times 24 Apr. 17/2 For 9 years she had been professor of clinical pharmacology at Cornell University Medical School.

2005 G. Critser Generation Rx i. 33 A lanky, bookish man with a substantial background in clinical pharmacology.

Draft additions March 2022

clinical depression n. the mental condition depression (when diagnosed medically or meeting the criteria for such diagnosis); an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1937 Q. Rev. Michigan Alumnus Spring 553/1 On examination it is found that the situation is one of frank clinical depression, a common and well-known type of mental condition.

1994 R. Preston Hot Zone Reston 114 Nancy began to think that he was in a clinical depression.

1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 28 Apr. 8/2 Under-diagnosis of clinical depression in men may be as high as 65 per cent.

2021 Econ. Times (Nexis) Grief can precipitate clinical depression in genetically vulnerable persons.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	clinical
释义	clinicaladj. Brit. /ˈklɪnᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈklɪnək(ə)l/ Etymology: Formed as clinic adj.¹ + -al suffix¹. 1. Medicine. Of or relating to the sickbed, spec. to that of indoor hospital patients: used in connection with the practical instruction given to medical students at the sickbeds in hospitals; e.g. clinical clerk, one who accompanies a hospital-physician in the wards, and keeps records of the cases; clinical lecture, a lecture at the bedside of the patient upon his case; clinical medicine, clinical surgery, medicine or surgery as learnt or taught at the bedside, ‘usually applied to hospital practice in which the physician, in going round the wards, comments upon the cases under his care’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.), hence clinical physician, clinical surgeon; clinical thermometer, a thermometer for ascertaining the patient's temperature. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical training > [adjective] > parts of training clinic1719 clinical1780 premedical1893 preclinical1907 preregistration1916 pre-med1918 1780 Ann. Reg. 216 Dr. John Parsons was unanimously elected Clinical Professor to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 161 The cultivation of clinical medicine, or the actual superintendence of the treatment of diseases. 1835 St. Thomas' Hosp. Rep. 83 I will give you the words of my clinical clerk. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 105 An exceedingly simple..form of microscope for the purposes of clinical instruction. 1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea ii. 16 A clinical thermometer was inserted into the mouth. 1889 London Hosp. & Med. Coll. Prospectus 16 Graduates..admitted to three months' Clinical Clerkship or Dressership. 2. Christian Church. Administered on the sickbed to one in danger of death. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > private, for sick person > [adjective] clinica1631 clinical1844 1844 Eng. Saints, St. German ii. 17 After the Baptism he received on the bed of sickness, which the ancients called Clinical baptism. 1846 C. Maitland Church in Catacombs 120 Unless in danger of death, when a clinical or death-bed reconciliation was permitted. 1855 N. Wiseman Fabiola 375 Clinical baptism..was administered by pouring or sprinkling the water on the head. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 239 The baptism of Rome and England [is] stigmatized [by the Greek Church] as ‘clinical’ only. 3. a. Coldly detached and dispassionate, like a medical report or examination; diagnostic or therapeutic, like medical investigation or treatment; treating a subject matter as if it were a case of disease, esp. with close attention to detail; serving as part of a case-study. Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally detached queamishc1430 squeamish1561 dry1637 unconcerned1660 inconcerned1688 aloof1872 stocky1876 detached1913 clinical1928 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > careful and detached clinical1928 1928 F. Hurst President is Born xxxii. 326 Bek would never have permitted Winslow to behold her..bartering in the clinical phraseology of the cattle-pen over bull or stallion or sow. 1934 H. Nicolson Curzon: Last Phase 65 As an ‘exhibit’ in any clinical examination of the mentality of the victors in the European War she [sc. Turkey] is unsurpassed. 1937 C. Isherwood Lions & Shadows 191 He peppered his work liberally with such terms as ‘eutectic’, ‘sigmoid curve’, ‘Arch-Monad’, ‘ligature’, ‘gastropod’; seeking thereby to produce what he himself described as a ‘clinical’ effect. To be ‘clinically minded’ was, he said, the first duty of a poet. 1944 H. Treece Herbert Read 9 I have selected a passage..as a clinical exhibit of adolescent self-repression. 1947 W. Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity (ed. 2) p. ix The effort of writing a good bit of verse has..been carried through almost as a clinical thing; it was done only to save the man's own sanity. 1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 27 ‘I suppose the twitching is just reflex action.’ Dinah's tone was clinical. 1953 S. Spender Creative Elem. 146 Auden..showed..a gift for inventing clinical-seeming images. 1957 Times 30 Sept. 14/6 Supreme skill on its own [in lawn tennis] without any major goal tends to become cold, clinical, and without feeling. 1958 Daily Mail 13 Mar. 1/1 Unemployment figures..were studied with..almost clinical interest. b. Bare and functional, like a hospital. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective] cleanc897 fair?c1225 netc1330 cleanly1340 unspotted1382 blotless?a1400 unwemmeda1400 spotlessc1400 neat1494 unblotted1548 unstained1555 stainlessa1586 exempt1586 unsoiledc1592 undefiled1596 unsullied1598 dirtlessa1618 immaculatea1631 innocent1645 unsmeared1648 unsmutched1809 speckless1827 spandy-clean1838 unblackened1864 soilless1868 smudgeless1924 clinical1932 squeaky clean1975 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > simplicity > [adjective] plainc1330 simplea1382 neat1453 natural1553 austere1581 bare1583 unintricated1649 severe1665 clever1674 light1740 ungaudy1795 unassuminga1807 inartificial1823 quiet1838 unpretentious1838 unabstract1840 uninvolved1853 penny-plain1854 simplex munditiis1874 unstagy1882 clinical1932 shibui1947 understated1957 1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces xii. 321 Her almost clinical bathroom. 1956 N. Cardus in Bedside Guardian V. 144 Would the interior look clinical,..would the architecture and ornamentation strike a chill to the heart? Draft additions April 2010 clinical pharmacology n. Medicine the branch of pharmacology that deals with the use of drugs in the treatment and prevention of disease. ΚΠ 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Dec. 1753 The official course of study is as follows:..Fourth Year.—Surgical Anatomy, Clinical Pharmacology, Special Mediacl and Surgical Pathology, [etc.]. 1907 Monthly Cycl. Pract. Med. Oct. 444 Investigations in laboratory and clinical pharmacology. 1961 Times 24 Apr. 17/2 For 9 years she had been professor of clinical pharmacology at Cornell University Medical School. 2005 G. Critser Generation Rx i. 33 A lanky, bookish man with a substantial background in clinical pharmacology. Draft additions March 2022 clinical depression n. the mental condition depression (when diagnosed medically or meeting the criteria for such diagnosis); an instance of this. ΚΠ 1937 Q. Rev. Michigan Alumnus Spring 553/1 On examination it is found that the situation is one of frank clinical depression, a common and well-known type of mental condition. 1994 R. Preston Hot Zone Reston 114 Nancy began to think that he was in a clinical depression. 1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 28 Apr. 8/2 Under-diagnosis of clinical depression in men may be as high as 65 per cent. 2021 Econ. Times (Nexis) Grief can precipitate clinical depression in genetically vulnerable persons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1780
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