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clinicidal

clinicidal adjective: likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, clinicide.

Adjective

clinicidal (comparative more clinicidal, superlative most clinicidal)

  1. Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, clinicide.
    • Many clinicidal doctors have extreme narcissistic personalities, a grandiose view of their own capability and inability to accept that they could be criticized or need assistance from other doctors.2007 August, Robert Kaplan, “The clinicide phenomenon: an exploration of medical murder”, in Australasian Psychiatry
    • On the other hand, some clinicidal doctors seem to have extreme narcissistic personalities—the full-blown “God complex”—that leads them to believe that they have the right to decide whether someone lives or dies.2012, Ronald Schouten, James Silver, Almost a Psychopath, →ISBN

Forms of clinicidal

comparativemore clinicidal
superlativemost clinicidal

Origin of clinicidal

From clinicide + -al.

Questions about clinicidal

What does clinicidal mean?
Clinicidal means likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, clinicide.
What part of speech is clinicidal?
Clinicidal is an adjective.

Words near clinicidal in the dictionary

  1. clinically dead
  2. clinically depressed
  3. clinicals
  4. clinician
  5. clinicians
  6. clinicidal
  7. clinicide
  8. clinicides
  9. clinico-
  10. clinico-pathological
  11. clinicoanatomical

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