clinicaladjective
uk/ˈklɪn.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈklɪn.ɪ.kəl/clinical adjective (MEDICAL)
C1 used to refer to medical work or teaching that relates to the examination and treatment of ill people:
clinical tests/training
the Department of Clinical Medicine
Clinical trials of the new drug may take five years.
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- She spent 15 years as a clinical psychologist with the Northumberland Health Authority.
- They're doing clinical trials on a new drug.
- There is no clinical reason for his symptoms.
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Medical treatment: general words
- first aid
- first-aider
- general practice
- gynaecological
- irradiation
- med
- medical
- medicine
- modality
- muti
- non-surgical
- orthopaedic
- painkiller
- quackery
- reconstructive
- restorative
- soothing
- stretcher sb off
- surgically
- telemedicine
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clinical adjective (WITHOUT EMOTION)
C2 disapproving expressing no emotion or feelings:
She seems to have a very clinical attitude towards her children.
showing no character and warmth:
We were going to paint our kitchen white, but we decided that would look too clinical.
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Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- internalize
- phlegmatic
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
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