clinical
Sterile and impersonal
Clinical describes what happens in direct contact with patients—a clinical examination, clinical trials, clinical experience.
The word extends to anything resembling a medical setting: clean, efficient, emotionally detached.
A clinical approach to a problem is coolly analytical, stripped of sentiment.
In sports, a clinical finish is precise and ruthless—no wasted motion, no drama, just results.
Identification of illness
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- patientAble to wait calmly
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- physicianLicensed medical doctor
surgery · therapy · ward · nurse · consultation · examination · symptoms · prognosis
Free from emotional involvement
- objectivePurpose or goal
- impersonalLacking warmth or individuality
- unemotionalLacking outward feeling
- coldLow temperature state
emotionless · distant · aloof · detached · cool · reserved · analytical · matter-of-fact
Microbe-killing substance
- sanitizedCleansed of contaminants
- hygienicClean and disease-preventing
- asepticFree from pathogens
- whiteAbsence of pigment
stark · bare · austere · spartan · minimalist · unadorned · fluorescent · institutional
Judicial examination of claims
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- dataFacts for analysis
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
controlled · randomized · double-blind · peer-reviewed · findings · outcomes · subjects · protocol
Supervised practical training
- internshipSupervised professional trial period
- residencyState of dwelling somewhere
- rotationTurning on an axis
- hands-onInvolving direct physical engagement
simulation · skills · fieldwork · supervised · preceptor · clerkship · bedside · rounds
diagnosis
Identification of illness
physician · surgery · therapy · ward · nurse · consultation · examination · symptoms · prognosis · rounds
dispassionate
Free from emotional involvement
- objectivePurpose or goal
- impersonalLacking warmth or individuality
- unemotionalLacking outward feeling
cold · emotionless · distant · aloof · detached · cool · reserved · analytical · matter-of-fact · businesslike
antiseptic
Microbe-killing substance
white · stark · bare · austere · spartan · minimalist · unadorned · fluorescent · institutional · cold
trial
Judicial examination of claims
placebo · controlled · randomized · double-blind · peer-reviewed · findings · outcomes · subjects · protocol · methodology
practicum
Supervised practical training
- internshipSupervised professional trial period
- residencyState of dwelling somewhere
- rotationTurning on an axis
hands-on · simulation · skills · fieldwork · supervised · preceptor · clerkship · bedside · rounds · competency
- medical adjectivessurgical, cardiac, orthopedic, malignant, respiratory
- test modifiersdiagnostic, preliminary, confirmatory, routine, stat
- therapy credentialsLCSW, licensed, certified, board certified, state license
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- lab qualitiessterile, calibrated, controlled, precise, accurate
- madnessmadness, lunacy, insanity, mania, schizophrenia
clinicalwarm
Moderately heated, or friendly
empathetic · emotional · compassionate · passionate · caring
clinicaltheoretical
Based on hypothesis, untested
subjective · preclinical · speculative · intuitive · biased
- outpatient clinicsMedical facilities without overnight stays
- free clinicNo-charge medical facility
- eye clinicsMedical facilities for sight
- clinical trialHuman subject research experiment
- walk-in clinic
- clinically deadHeart and breathing stopped
clinic, clinics, clinician, clinically, clinicians, preclinical, subclinical, nonclinical, clinical trials