Definition of clinical in English:

clinical

adjective ˈklɪnɪk(ə)lˈklɪnək(ə)l

1Relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies.
clinical medicine
clinical drug trials
Example sentencesExamples
- However, such approaches are obviously of little help for clinical studies in patients.
- The findings of the present study have important clinical implications for patient care.
- Most patients in clinical trials had osteolytic bone metastases on imaging studies.
- The secondary objective was to study the clinical response to treatment.
- The present study was performed in a tumor-bearing rat model, preceding clinical studies in patients with ovarian cancer.
- The contribution of animal studies to clinical medicine requires urgent formal evaluation.
- Treatment patients showed better clinical outcome at delivery, with higher average infant birth weight measures and Apgar scores.
- In this study we describe the clinical and laboratory features of the patients with and without mycobacteraemia.
- I believe that access to hospital treatment should be on clinical need rather than on ability to pay.
- We can use clinical research, studying patients.
- Many patients also participate in clinical research studies that evaluate new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
- The study, involving clinical trials on Christie patients, will cost around £40,000.
- Their emphasis on clerical rather than clinical management of patients has been a feature of recent times.
- We also discuss the treatment and clinical outcome of these patients.
- He leaves the impression that no herb has ever been subjected to chemical, laboratory, or clinical study and found safe.
- Biological therapy is now being studied in clinical trials for use in colon cancer treatment.
- The company said clinical trials showed the drug helps patients achieve lower blood sugar when injected prior to meals.
- We did this several years ago in a clinical study, in patients who had aneurysms who were scheduled to undergo surgery.
- Some doctors even enroll and treat patients in clinical studies that are paid for by companies they own.
- Sheskin later conducted double-blind clinical studies on ENL patients in Venezuela.
1. 1.1 (of a disease or condition) causing observable and recognizable symptoms.
  clinical depression
  Example sentencesExamples
  Symptoms of clinical depression usually begin by early adulthood.
  These trials compared SSRIs with placebo in adults with depression and other clinical conditions.
  Trachoma was described as a clinical disease thousands of years before the bacterium was first isolated and identified.
  Treating the presence of a genetic marker as though it were the clinical disease can be very unhelpful.
  Also, we emphasize that not all individuals with high anti-GAD antibody levels necessarily develop the clinical disease.
  Absent any clinical disease, it's hard to argue that the pesticides are causing significant harm.
  The clinical syndrome of bronchial asthma has been known for centuries.
  We are looking primarily for the appearance of all the autoantibodies that have been shown to be a predictor of clinical diabetes.
  Ultimately, these strategies will be applied earlier in the sequence during a stage that we do not yet recognise as clinical diabetes.
  Both have a level of clinical illness and both have a level of stress, which is very much surprising.
  Some individuals with clinical disease have no such antibodies detectable.
  Thus, unsuccessful aging can be considered a risk factor for clinical disease.
  Recognizing the symptoms of clinical depression and getting help early can help prevent serious problems, experts say.
  Heart failure is a clinical syndrome which has reached epidemic proportions.
  Such data are not currently available and would certainly provide important insight into clinical diseases.
  Mycobacterium fortuitum is known for producing a wide spectrum of clinical disease.
  Aspirin induced asthma is a distinct clinical syndrome affecting some asthmatic patients.
  Cows can be contaminating milk before they show evidence of clinical disease.
  Years to decades after the acute phase, chronic clinical disease may appear as a heart or bowel disorder.
  Sahn and Hefner recently reviewed the clinical condition of spontaneous pneumothorax.
2Very efficient and without feeling; coldly detached.
nothing was left to chance—everything was clinical
Example sentencesExamples
- The problem with this analysis is that only geeks and journalists are listening to Apple's story with that sort of clinical attention to detail.
- Too often, the clinical eye of business looks past human needs and focuses only on the accounts.
- He demanded an almost clinical level of detachment between actors and audience.
- Combined with Dahl's clinical distance from the material, this means a potentially outstanding war movie is diluted into merely a good one.
- Lazy journalists tend to think that his stuff is very clinical and detached, but behind all of that is an enormous heart pumping away.
- The joy of McNeil's book is that it characterises the mess with such clear and clinical efficiency.
- He brought to the art of batsmanship a clinical and almost frightening efficiency.
- It doesn't happen with the clinical detachment that they tell it with.
- Strange that it should be the coldly clinical camera lens that captured the hidden emotions everyone else missed on his face.
- She does it with a mixture of clinical efficiency and anger.
- But that should not take away from the overall performance of a Bridge squad that played its football with a ruthless and clinical efficiency.
- I want it to be efficient, clinical, impartial and polite.
- They speak with a somewhat clinical detachment that ironically casts many of their observations and findings in a rather dramatic light.
- The sheer clinical distance of those words, days after the attack, speaks volumes.
- Behavioural research derives its authority from notions of scientific rigour and clinical detachment.
- Some have accused her of coldness, of clinical detachment.
- In the alley on the lower deck, I find seamen from all over India sharing jokes and working with clinical efficiency.
- Belvaux conveys the icy determination of the lone assassin with clinical efficiency.
- It's distanced, almost clinical and that in turn leads to a great deal of gallows humour.
- He confronts their arguments in almost clinical detail.
Synonyms
detached, impersonal, dispassionate, objective, uninvolved, distant, remote, aloof, removed, cold, indifferent, neutral, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unemotional, non-emotional, unsentimental
scientific, analytic, rational, logical, hard-headed, sober, businesslike
1. 2.1 (of a room or building) bare, functional, and clean.
  the room was white and clinical
  Example sentencesExamples
  Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel.
  Imagine a clinical, morgue-like room, all stainless steel and green rubber sheets.
  It is all clean and clinical: concrete everywhere, no mud, no puddles, none of the smell of the countryside.
  There's something unmistakably clean and clinical about the Westmount Spa.
  The ambience of the interior, according to Halford, is ‘very clinical, clean and pure’.
  We can offer you clinical facilities at the JFK Hospital to begin with, and we will ask to use your expertise to help us equip whatever surgical room you will need.
  The hospitals were commended for their good signposting, bright and uncluttered corridors and clinical areas with helpful and organised support staff.
  A museum is necessarily clinical, and as a professor of history I can walk through it with the detachment and assurance of a doctor.
  The first was the cocktail bar, very plush, almost empty and looking very clean and clinical.
  Synonyms
  plain, simple, unadorned, unornamented, unembellished, stark, austere, severe, spartan, ascetic, monastic, bleak, bare, chaste, cheerless
  clean
  functional, basic, institutional, impersonal, characterless, soulless, colourless, antiseptic
  informal no frills

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek klinikē 'bedside' (see clinic) + -al.

Rhymes

cynical, dominical, finical, Jacobinical, pinnacle, rabbinical

Definition of clinical in US English:

clinical

adjectiveˈklinək(ə)lˈklɪnək(ə)l

1Relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies.
clinical medicine
clinical drug trials
Example sentencesExamples
- We did this several years ago in a clinical study, in patients who had aneurysms who were scheduled to undergo surgery.
- The present study was performed in a tumor-bearing rat model, preceding clinical studies in patients with ovarian cancer.
- In this study we describe the clinical and laboratory features of the patients with and without mycobacteraemia.
- We also discuss the treatment and clinical outcome of these patients.
- Biological therapy is now being studied in clinical trials for use in colon cancer treatment.
- Treatment patients showed better clinical outcome at delivery, with higher average infant birth weight measures and Apgar scores.
- We can use clinical research, studying patients.
- I believe that access to hospital treatment should be on clinical need rather than on ability to pay.
- However, such approaches are obviously of little help for clinical studies in patients.
- He leaves the impression that no herb has ever been subjected to chemical, laboratory, or clinical study and found safe.
- Their emphasis on clerical rather than clinical management of patients has been a feature of recent times.
- The contribution of animal studies to clinical medicine requires urgent formal evaluation.
- The study, involving clinical trials on Christie patients, will cost around £40,000.
- The company said clinical trials showed the drug helps patients achieve lower blood sugar when injected prior to meals.
- The findings of the present study have important clinical implications for patient care.
- Many patients also participate in clinical research studies that evaluate new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
- Sheskin later conducted double-blind clinical studies on ENL patients in Venezuela.
- Most patients in clinical trials had osteolytic bone metastases on imaging studies.
- Some doctors even enroll and treat patients in clinical studies that are paid for by companies they own.
- The secondary objective was to study the clinical response to treatment.
1. 1.1 (of a disease or condition) causing observable and recognizable symptoms.
  clinical depression
  Example sentencesExamples
  Absent any clinical disease, it's hard to argue that the pesticides are causing significant harm.
  Treating the presence of a genetic marker as though it were the clinical disease can be very unhelpful.
  Some individuals with clinical disease have no such antibodies detectable.
  Recognizing the symptoms of clinical depression and getting help early can help prevent serious problems, experts say.
  Both have a level of clinical illness and both have a level of stress, which is very much surprising.
  Heart failure is a clinical syndrome which has reached epidemic proportions.
  Thus, unsuccessful aging can be considered a risk factor for clinical disease.
  Ultimately, these strategies will be applied earlier in the sequence during a stage that we do not yet recognise as clinical diabetes.
  Years to decades after the acute phase, chronic clinical disease may appear as a heart or bowel disorder.
  Also, we emphasize that not all individuals with high anti-GAD antibody levels necessarily develop the clinical disease.
  Aspirin induced asthma is a distinct clinical syndrome affecting some asthmatic patients.
  The clinical syndrome of bronchial asthma has been known for centuries.
  Symptoms of clinical depression usually begin by early adulthood.
  Cows can be contaminating milk before they show evidence of clinical disease.
  Mycobacterium fortuitum is known for producing a wide spectrum of clinical disease.
  These trials compared SSRIs with placebo in adults with depression and other clinical conditions.
  Such data are not currently available and would certainly provide important insight into clinical diseases.
  Sahn and Hefner recently reviewed the clinical condition of spontaneous pneumothorax.
  We are looking primarily for the appearance of all the autoantibodies that have been shown to be a predictor of clinical diabetes.
  Trachoma was described as a clinical disease thousands of years before the bacterium was first isolated and identified.
2Efficient and unemotional; coldly detached.
the clinical detail of a textbook
Example sentencesExamples
- The joy of McNeil's book is that it characterises the mess with such clear and clinical efficiency.
- The sheer clinical distance of those words, days after the attack, speaks volumes.
- Combined with Dahl's clinical distance from the material, this means a potentially outstanding war movie is diluted into merely a good one.
- He brought to the art of batsmanship a clinical and almost frightening efficiency.
- He demanded an almost clinical level of detachment between actors and audience.
- Some have accused her of coldness, of clinical detachment.
- I want it to be efficient, clinical, impartial and polite.
- Lazy journalists tend to think that his stuff is very clinical and detached, but behind all of that is an enormous heart pumping away.
- Too often, the clinical eye of business looks past human needs and focuses only on the accounts.
- The problem with this analysis is that only geeks and journalists are listening to Apple's story with that sort of clinical attention to detail.
- Behavioural research derives its authority from notions of scientific rigour and clinical detachment.
- It doesn't happen with the clinical detachment that they tell it with.
- He confronts their arguments in almost clinical detail.
- They speak with a somewhat clinical detachment that ironically casts many of their observations and findings in a rather dramatic light.
- In the alley on the lower deck, I find seamen from all over India sharing jokes and working with clinical efficiency.
- Belvaux conveys the icy determination of the lone assassin with clinical efficiency.
- Strange that it should be the coldly clinical camera lens that captured the hidden emotions everyone else missed on his face.
- It's distanced, almost clinical and that in turn leads to a great deal of gallows humour.
- She does it with a mixture of clinical efficiency and anger.
- But that should not take away from the overall performance of a Bridge squad that played its football with a ruthless and clinical efficiency.
Synonyms
detached, impersonal, dispassionate, objective, uninvolved, distant, remote, aloof, removed, cold, indifferent, neutral, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unemotional, non-emotional, unsentimental
1. 2.1 (of a room or building) bare, functional, and clean.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first was the cocktail bar, very plush, almost empty and looking very clean and clinical.
  The ambience of the interior, according to Halford, is ‘very clinical, clean and pure’.
  A museum is necessarily clinical, and as a professor of history I can walk through it with the detachment and assurance of a doctor.
  The hospitals were commended for their good signposting, bright and uncluttered corridors and clinical areas with helpful and organised support staff.
  Imagine a clinical, morgue-like room, all stainless steel and green rubber sheets.
  It is all clean and clinical: concrete everywhere, no mud, no puddles, none of the smell of the countryside.
  Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel.
  We can offer you clinical facilities at the JFK Hospital to begin with, and we will ask to use your expertise to help us equip whatever surgical room you will need.
  There's something unmistakably clean and clinical about the Westmount Spa.
  Synonyms
  plain, simple, unadorned, unornamented, unembellished, stark, austere, severe, spartan, ascetic, monastic, bleak, bare, chaste, cheerless

Origin

Late 18th century: from Greek klinikē ‘bedside’ (see clinic) + -al.

单词	clinical
释义	Definition of clinical in English: clinical adjective ˈklɪnɪk(ə)lˈklɪnək(ə)l 1Relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies. clinical medicine clinical drug trials Example sentencesExamples However, such approaches are obviously of little help for clinical studies in patients. The findings of the present study have important clinical implications for patient care. Most patients in clinical trials had osteolytic bone metastases on imaging studies. The secondary objective was to study the clinical response to treatment. The present study was performed in a tumor-bearing rat model, preceding clinical studies in patients with ovarian cancer. The contribution of animal studies to clinical medicine requires urgent formal evaluation. Treatment patients showed better clinical outcome at delivery, with higher average infant birth weight measures and Apgar scores. In this study we describe the clinical and laboratory features of the patients with and without mycobacteraemia. I believe that access to hospital treatment should be on clinical need rather than on ability to pay. We can use clinical research, studying patients. Many patients also participate in clinical research studies that evaluate new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. The study, involving clinical trials on Christie patients, will cost around £40,000. Their emphasis on clerical rather than clinical management of patients has been a feature of recent times. We also discuss the treatment and clinical outcome of these patients. He leaves the impression that no herb has ever been subjected to chemical, laboratory, or clinical study and found safe. Biological therapy is now being studied in clinical trials for use in colon cancer treatment. The company said clinical trials showed the drug helps patients achieve lower blood sugar when injected prior to meals. We did this several years ago in a clinical study, in patients who had aneurysms who were scheduled to undergo surgery. Some doctors even enroll and treat patients in clinical studies that are paid for by companies they own. Sheskin later conducted double-blind clinical studies on ENL patients in Venezuela. 1.1 (of a disease or condition) causing observable and recognizable symptoms. clinical depression Example sentencesExamples Symptoms of clinical depression usually begin by early adulthood. These trials compared SSRIs with placebo in adults with depression and other clinical conditions. Trachoma was described as a clinical disease thousands of years before the bacterium was first isolated and identified. Treating the presence of a genetic marker as though it were the clinical disease can be very unhelpful. Also, we emphasize that not all individuals with high anti-GAD antibody levels necessarily develop the clinical disease. Absent any clinical disease, it's hard to argue that the pesticides are causing significant harm. The clinical syndrome of bronchial asthma has been known for centuries. We are looking primarily for the appearance of all the autoantibodies that have been shown to be a predictor of clinical diabetes. Ultimately, these strategies will be applied earlier in the sequence during a stage that we do not yet recognise as clinical diabetes. Both have a level of clinical illness and both have a level of stress, which is very much surprising. Some individuals with clinical disease have no such antibodies detectable. Thus, unsuccessful aging can be considered a risk factor for clinical disease. Recognizing the symptoms of clinical depression and getting help early can help prevent serious problems, experts say. Heart failure is a clinical syndrome which has reached epidemic proportions. Such data are not currently available and would certainly provide important insight into clinical diseases. Mycobacterium fortuitum is known for producing a wide spectrum of clinical disease. Aspirin induced asthma is a distinct clinical syndrome affecting some asthmatic patients. Cows can be contaminating milk before they show evidence of clinical disease. Years to decades after the acute phase, chronic clinical disease may appear as a heart or bowel disorder. Sahn and Hefner recently reviewed the clinical condition of spontaneous pneumothorax. 2Very efficient and without feeling; coldly detached. nothing was left to chance—everything was clinical Example sentencesExamples The problem with this analysis is that only geeks and journalists are listening to Apple's story with that sort of clinical attention to detail. Too often, the clinical eye of business looks past human needs and focuses only on the accounts. He demanded an almost clinical level of detachment between actors and audience. Combined with Dahl's clinical distance from the material, this means a potentially outstanding war movie is diluted into merely a good one. Lazy journalists tend to think that his stuff is very clinical and detached, but behind all of that is an enormous heart pumping away. The joy of McNeil's book is that it characterises the mess with such clear and clinical efficiency. He brought to the art of batsmanship a clinical and almost frightening efficiency. It doesn't happen with the clinical detachment that they tell it with. Strange that it should be the coldly clinical camera lens that captured the hidden emotions everyone else missed on his face. She does it with a mixture of clinical efficiency and anger. But that should not take away from the overall performance of a Bridge squad that played its football with a ruthless and clinical efficiency. I want it to be efficient, clinical, impartial and polite. They speak with a somewhat clinical detachment that ironically casts many of their observations and findings in a rather dramatic light. The sheer clinical distance of those words, days after the attack, speaks volumes. Behavioural research derives its authority from notions of scientific rigour and clinical detachment. Some have accused her of coldness, of clinical detachment. In the alley on the lower deck, I find seamen from all over India sharing jokes and working with clinical efficiency. Belvaux conveys the icy determination of the lone assassin with clinical efficiency. It's distanced, almost clinical and that in turn leads to a great deal of gallows humour. He confronts their arguments in almost clinical detail. Synonyms detached, impersonal, dispassionate, objective, uninvolved, distant, remote, aloof, removed, cold, indifferent, neutral, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unemotional, non-emotional, unsentimental scientific, analytic, rational, logical, hard-headed, sober, businesslike 2.1 (of a room or building) bare, functional, and clean. the room was white and clinical Example sentencesExamples Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel. Imagine a clinical, morgue-like room, all stainless steel and green rubber sheets. It is all clean and clinical: concrete everywhere, no mud, no puddles, none of the smell of the countryside. There's something unmistakably clean and clinical about the Westmount Spa. The ambience of the interior, according to Halford, is ‘very clinical, clean and pure’. We can offer you clinical facilities at the JFK Hospital to begin with, and we will ask to use your expertise to help us equip whatever surgical room you will need. The hospitals were commended for their good signposting, bright and uncluttered corridors and clinical areas with helpful and organised support staff. A museum is necessarily clinical, and as a professor of history I can walk through it with the detachment and assurance of a doctor. The first was the cocktail bar, very plush, almost empty and looking very clean and clinical. Synonyms plain, simple, unadorned, unornamented, unembellished, stark, austere, severe, spartan, ascetic, monastic, bleak, bare, chaste, cheerless clean functional, basic, institutional, impersonal, characterless, soulless, colourless, antiseptic informal no frills Origin Late 18th century: from Greek klinikē 'bedside' (see clinic) + -al. Rhymes cynical, dominical, finical, Jacobinical, pinnacle, rabbinical Definition of clinical in US English: clinical adjectiveˈklinək(ə)lˈklɪnək(ə)l 1Relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies. clinical medicine clinical drug trials Example sentencesExamples We did this several years ago in a clinical study, in patients who had aneurysms who were scheduled to undergo surgery. The present study was performed in a tumor-bearing rat model, preceding clinical studies in patients with ovarian cancer. In this study we describe the clinical and laboratory features of the patients with and without mycobacteraemia. We also discuss the treatment and clinical outcome of these patients. Biological therapy is now being studied in clinical trials for use in colon cancer treatment. Treatment patients showed better clinical outcome at delivery, with higher average infant birth weight measures and Apgar scores. We can use clinical research, studying patients. I believe that access to hospital treatment should be on clinical need rather than on ability to pay. However, such approaches are obviously of little help for clinical studies in patients. He leaves the impression that no herb has ever been subjected to chemical, laboratory, or clinical study and found safe. Their emphasis on clerical rather than clinical management of patients has been a feature of recent times. The contribution of animal studies to clinical medicine requires urgent formal evaluation. The study, involving clinical trials on Christie patients, will cost around £40,000. The company said clinical trials showed the drug helps patients achieve lower blood sugar when injected prior to meals. The findings of the present study have important clinical implications for patient care. Many patients also participate in clinical research studies that evaluate new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Sheskin later conducted double-blind clinical studies on ENL patients in Venezuela. Most patients in clinical trials had osteolytic bone metastases on imaging studies. Some doctors even enroll and treat patients in clinical studies that are paid for by companies they own. The secondary objective was to study the clinical response to treatment. 1.1 (of a disease or condition) causing observable and recognizable symptoms. clinical depression Example sentencesExamples Absent any clinical disease, it's hard to argue that the pesticides are causing significant harm. Treating the presence of a genetic marker as though it were the clinical disease can be very unhelpful. Some individuals with clinical disease have no such antibodies detectable. Recognizing the symptoms of clinical depression and getting help early can help prevent serious problems, experts say. Both have a level of clinical illness and both have a level of stress, which is very much surprising. Heart failure is a clinical syndrome which has reached epidemic proportions. Thus, unsuccessful aging can be considered a risk factor for clinical disease. Ultimately, these strategies will be applied earlier in the sequence during a stage that we do not yet recognise as clinical diabetes. Years to decades after the acute phase, chronic clinical disease may appear as a heart or bowel disorder. Also, we emphasize that not all individuals with high anti-GAD antibody levels necessarily develop the clinical disease. Aspirin induced asthma is a distinct clinical syndrome affecting some asthmatic patients. The clinical syndrome of bronchial asthma has been known for centuries. Symptoms of clinical depression usually begin by early adulthood. Cows can be contaminating milk before they show evidence of clinical disease. Mycobacterium fortuitum is known for producing a wide spectrum of clinical disease. These trials compared SSRIs with placebo in adults with depression and other clinical conditions. Such data are not currently available and would certainly provide important insight into clinical diseases. Sahn and Hefner recently reviewed the clinical condition of spontaneous pneumothorax. We are looking primarily for the appearance of all the autoantibodies that have been shown to be a predictor of clinical diabetes. Trachoma was described as a clinical disease thousands of years before the bacterium was first isolated and identified. 2Efficient and unemotional; coldly detached. the clinical detail of a textbook Example sentencesExamples The joy of McNeil's book is that it characterises the mess with such clear and clinical efficiency. The sheer clinical distance of those words, days after the attack, speaks volumes. Combined with Dahl's clinical distance from the material, this means a potentially outstanding war movie is diluted into merely a good one. He brought to the art of batsmanship a clinical and almost frightening efficiency. He demanded an almost clinical level of detachment between actors and audience. Some have accused her of coldness, of clinical detachment. I want it to be efficient, clinical, impartial and polite. Lazy journalists tend to think that his stuff is very clinical and detached, but behind all of that is an enormous heart pumping away. Too often, the clinical eye of business looks past human needs and focuses only on the accounts. The problem with this analysis is that only geeks and journalists are listening to Apple's story with that sort of clinical attention to detail. Behavioural research derives its authority from notions of scientific rigour and clinical detachment. It doesn't happen with the clinical detachment that they tell it with. He confronts their arguments in almost clinical detail. They speak with a somewhat clinical detachment that ironically casts many of their observations and findings in a rather dramatic light. In the alley on the lower deck, I find seamen from all over India sharing jokes and working with clinical efficiency. Belvaux conveys the icy determination of the lone assassin with clinical efficiency. Strange that it should be the coldly clinical camera lens that captured the hidden emotions everyone else missed on his face. It's distanced, almost clinical and that in turn leads to a great deal of gallows humour. She does it with a mixture of clinical efficiency and anger. But that should not take away from the overall performance of a Bridge squad that played its football with a ruthless and clinical efficiency. Synonyms detached, impersonal, dispassionate, objective, uninvolved, distant, remote, aloof, removed, cold, indifferent, neutral, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unemotional, non-emotional, unsentimental 2.1 (of a room or building) bare, functional, and clean. Example sentencesExamples The first was the cocktail bar, very plush, almost empty and looking very clean and clinical. The ambience of the interior, according to Halford, is ‘very clinical, clean and pure’. A museum is necessarily clinical, and as a professor of history I can walk through it with the detachment and assurance of a doctor. The hospitals were commended for their good signposting, bright and uncluttered corridors and clinical areas with helpful and organised support staff. Imagine a clinical, morgue-like room, all stainless steel and green rubber sheets. It is all clean and clinical: concrete everywhere, no mud, no puddles, none of the smell of the countryside. Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel. We can offer you clinical facilities at the JFK Hospital to begin with, and we will ask to use your expertise to help us equip whatever surgical room you will need. There's something unmistakably clean and clinical about the Westmount Spa. Synonyms plain, simple, unadorned, unornamented, unembellished, stark, austere, severe, spartan, ascetic, monastic, bleak, bare, chaste, cheerless Origin Late 18th century: from Greek klinikē ‘bedside’ (see clinic) + -al.
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