clinical

adjective more clinical · most clinical

1. 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.”
2. 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.
3. Cool and emotionless, in a professional way, as contrasted with an impetuous or unprofessional way.

   Similar: unemotional, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside, dispassionate, emotionless, immovable

4. Objective; analytical. We took a clinical approach to resolving conflicts.

   Similar: detached, disinterested

5. Excellent and precise. Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson put his below-par performance against Argentina behind him with a fine first-half showing, slotting four kicks from six and controlling his back-line with aplomb, while England's three-quarters were brimming with life and clinical with their execution.

   Similar: accurate, exact

6. obsolete Of or relating to a bed, especially a deathbed. a clinical convert: one who turns to religion on their death-bed

Opposite: nonclinical

noun clinicals

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