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clinical medicine

clinical medicine noun: the principal subset of medical practice, comprising all aspects of medicine that happen at the point of care, as opposed to the aspects that happen in the clinical laboratory, imaging center, medical school classroom, data center, or other nonclinical settings; thus, for example, the radiology service and the pathology service are conceptually differentiable, such that the clinical components of the diagnostic process (e.g., history, physical examination, point of care testing) are categorizable as distinct from the nonclinical ones that interface with the clinical activity (e.g., radiologic interpretation, histopathologic analysis, data analysis).

Noun

clinical medicine (uncountable)

  1. The principal subset of medical practice, comprising all aspects of medicine that happen at the point of care, as opposed to the aspects that happen in the clinical laboratory, imaging center, medical school classroom, data center, or other nonclinical settings; thus, for example, the radiology service and the pathology service are conceptually differentiable, such that the clinical components of the diagnostic process (e.g., history, physical examination, point of care testing) are categorizable as distinct from the nonclinical ones that interface with the clinical activity (e.g., radiologic interpretation, histopathologic analysis, data analysis).

clinical medicine meaning in Tamil

clinical medicine in Tamil

புலன் மருத்துவம்

Origin of clinical medicine

Collocation of clinical + medicine, originating in a mere sum of parts but having an idiomatically established meaning slightly beyond the etymonic one alone; etymonically, clinical medicine is what happens in the clinic, but by direct logical extension, it is what happens at the point of care generally, whether literally inside a clinic (e.g., doctor's office, outpatient clinic, physiotherapy center, hospital) or at home (a private home or a communal home such as a nursing home).

Questions about clinical medicine

What does clinical medicine mean?
Clinical medicine means the principal subset of medical practice, comprising all aspects of medicine that happen at the point of care, as opposed to the aspects that happen in the clinical laboratory, imaging center, medical school classroom, data center, or other nonclinical settings; thus, for example, the radiology service and the pathology service are conceptually differentiable, such that the clinical components of the diagnostic process (e.g., history, physical examination, point of care testing) are categorizable as distinct from the nonclinical ones that interface with the clinical activity (e.g., radiologic interpretation, histopathologic analysis, data analysis).
What is clinical medicine in Tamil?
Clinical medicine in Tamil is புலன் மருத்துவம். See Clinical medicine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clinical medicine?
Clinical medicine is a noun.

Words near clinical medicine in the dictionary

  1. clinical examination
  2. clinical examinations
  3. clinical hypothermia
  4. clinical linguistics
  5. clinical manifestation
  6. clinical medicine
  7. clinical pathology
  8. clinical psychology
  9. clinical stamp
  10. clinical stamps
  11. clinical trial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clinical medicine (page history and authors); clinical medicine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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