Clinical

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.
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.