clinical baptism

Baptism administered to the sick

conditional (or hypothetical) baptism

Baptism administered conditionally when it is doubtful whether the person was previously baptized validly or at all

private baptism

Baptism elsewhere than in church

clinic /klinˈik/, also clinique /kli-nēkˈ/

1. A private hospital or nursing-home
2. An institution, or a department of one, or a group of doctors, for treating patients or for diagnosis or giving advice
3. Any group meeting for instruction, often remedial, in a particular field
4. The instruction of medicine or surgery at the bedside of hospital patients
5. A session of such instruction
6. A person confined to bed by sickness (archaic)

clinˈical adjective

1. Hospital-like
2. Denoting the branch of a subject concerned with treating disorders, as in clinical psychology
3. Concerned with or based on observation
4. Strictly objective
5. Analytical
6. Plain, functional in appearance

clinˈically adverb

clinician /-ishˈən/ noun

1. A doctor, etc who works directly with patients
2. A doctor, etc who runs, or works in, a clinic

clinical baptism noun

Baptism administered to persons on their sickbed

clinical convert noun

A person converted on his or her deathbed

clinical death noun

A state of the body in which the brain has entirely ceased to function, though artificial means can be used to maintain the action of the heart, lungs, etc

clinical lecture noun

One given to students at the bedside of the sick

clinical medicine or clinical surgery noun

Medicine or surgery as taught by clinics

clinical thermometer noun

A finely-calibrated thermometer in which the temperature taken continues to be indicated until reset by shaking

clinical trial noun

The study of existing data on or the obtaining of new data from human patients directly in order to test the efficacy of a treatment or a hypothesis related to the cause of a disease