'Clinical' means 'medical'.
Clinical - a broad term
The term tends to encompass the whole sphere of medical practice, such as dealing with patients, or research or laboratory work relating to patients, eg -
- clinical team
- clinical study
- clinical examination
- clinical test
- clinical sign
- clinical trial
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CLINICAL PUBLICATIONS
OARSI Clinical Trials Recommendations: Design, conduct, and reporting of clinical trials for knee osteoarthritis. McAlindon TE, Driban JB, Henrotin Y, Hunter DJ, Jiang GL, Skou ST, Wang S, Schnitzer T. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2015 May;23(5):747-60. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2015.03.005.