The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clinical \Clin"ic*al\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k*al), Clinic \Clin"ic\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k), a. [Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
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Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.
Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics.
Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.
Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
Wikipedia
Clinical Medicine is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Royal College of Physicians. It was established in 1966 as the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. It carried both names between 1998 and 2000, and since 2001 it has appeared as Clinical Medicine. The editor-in-chief is Humphrey Hodgson (emeritus professor of UCL Medical School).
Usage examples of "clinical medicine".
In all likelihood this coma problem will be around for some time, plenty of time for you to begin again when you have a real background in clinical medicine.
He didn't want to give up clinical medicine, just loosen the stranglehold it had on his life.
He felt so out of touch with clinical medicine that he didn’.
MUCH AS HE wished for a return to clinical medicine, Pierre Alexandre didn't especially like it, at least this matter of treating people who would not survive.
Jackson, who thankfully forgot about his questions concerning clinical medicine.
He hadn't practiced clinical medicine since his residency, but he read all the right journals and knew the techniques, and besides, his current crop of patient/victims wouldn't know the difference anyway.
Hayes had been distant, obviously impressed by his own celebrity status and openly contemptuous of Jason's decision to stay in clinical medicine.
The exams at the end of the year are on materia medica, clinical medicine, surgery, a bit more physiology and anatomy.
So is clinical medicine, to my view: know the systems, recognize when something's wrong, and know what to do about it.
Whether preventive or clinical medicine, spaceflight was for the few.