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[ adjective ] relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients
Examples "clinical observation" "clinical case study" Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)In some instances a different clinical disease picture may result from this route of exposure , making diagnosis difficult . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)Muscle weakness is now recognized as an uncommon though serious complication of steroid therapy , with most of the synthetic adrenal corticosteroids in clinical use . The clinical impression at this time was either muscular_dystrophy or polymyositis . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Physiological experiments and clinical observations have shown that these procedures influence the hypothalamically controlled hypophyseal secretions and increase sympathetic discharges . Some investigators have found a parallelism between remissions and return of the sympathetic reactivity of the hypothalamus to the normal level as indicated by the Mecholyl_test and , conversely , between clinical impairment and increasing deviation of this test from the norm . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] scientifically detached; unemotional
Examples "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)Intermarriage , which is generally regarded_as a threat to Jewish survival , was regarded not with horror or apprehension but with a kind of mild , clinical disapproval . Related terms |
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