clinical

5 definitions • 7 examples

used to refer to medical work or teaching that relates to the examination and treatment of ill people:

clinical tests/training

She recently underwent a clinical evaluation in hospital.

the Department of Clinical Medicine

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.

(of medical work or teaching) relating to examining and treating someone who is ill:

Clinical tests have so far failed to show the cause of her illness.

Clinical also means considering a situation without showing or feeling any emotion:

Mac's air of clinical disinterest did not always sit well with his associates.