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单词 clinical
释义

clinical

/ˈklɪnɪk(ə)l /
adjective
1Relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies: clinical medicine clinical drug trials...
  • In this study we describe the clinical and laboratory features of the patients with and without mycobacteraemia.
  • Most patients in clinical trials had osteolytic bone metastases on imaging studies.
  • The study, involving clinical trials on Christie patients, will cost around £40,000.
1.1(Of a disease or condition) causing observable and recognizable symptoms: clinical depression...
  • These trials compared SSRIs with placebo in adults with depression and other clinical conditions.
  • Sahn and Hefner recently reviewed the clinical condition of spontaneous pneumothorax.
  • Aspirin induced asthma is a distinct clinical syndrome affecting some asthmatic patients.
2Very efficient and without feeling; coldly detached: nothing was left to chance—everything was clinical...
  • Behavioural research derives its authority from notions of scientific rigour and clinical detachment.
  • I want it to be efficient, clinical, impartial and polite.
  • Some have accused her of coldness, of clinical detachment.

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...
  • 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.

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

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