Clinical | Mean of clinical in English Dictionary

/ˈklɪnɪkəl/

• relating to or based on work done with real patients
1. Both experimental and clinical evidence show that the treatment is effective.
2. She enjoys her clinical practice but is looking forward to working in a laboratory.
3. Three hundred patients were involved in the clinical study.
4. a drug that is undergoing clinical trials [=scientific tests to see the effect of a drug by using it with real patients]
5. He's a clinical psychologist [=a psychologist who works with patients] and professor of psychology at the university.
• requiring treatment as a medical problem
1. Clinical depression [=depression that is a medical condition] is more serious than the occasional bouts of sadness that most people deal with.
• of or relating to a place where medical treatment is given
1. clinical offices
2. She has been the clinical director [=the director of a clinic] here for five years.

• not showing emotion or excitement
1. Her voice was calm, almost clinical [=cold], as she told us what happened.
• very exact or skillful
1. He did the work with clinical precision.