clinical
adjective
[ ˈklɪnɪk(ə)l ]
• relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies.
• "clinical medicine"
• very efficient and without feeling; coldly detached.
• "nothing was left to chance—everything was clinical"
Similar:
detached,
impersonal,
dispassionate,
objective,
uninvolved,
distant,
remote,
aloof,
removed,
cold,
indifferent,
neutral,
unsympathetic,
unfeeling,
unemotional,
non-emotional,
unsentimental,
scientific,
analytic,
rational,
logical,
hard-headed,
sober,
businesslike,
Origin:
late 18th century: from Greek klinikē ‘bedside’ (see clinic) + -al.
