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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Clinical

/(klĭn"ĭk*al)/ · Clin·ic·al · IPA /ˈklɪnɪkəl/
01 a. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
  2. 2.
    Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Phrases & compounds
Clinical baptism — baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.
Clinical instruction — instruction by means of clinics.
Clinical lecture — a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.
Clinical medicine — that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.