Clinical /(klĭn"ĭk*al)/

Clin·ic·al

Clinical

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
  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.