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Adjective: clinical  klinikul
  1. Relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients
    "clinical observation"; "clinical case study"
     
  2. Scientifically detached; unemotional
    "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"

See also: clinic, clinically, nonsubjective, objective, subclinical

Encyclopedia: Clinical