1.
Clinical means involving or relating to the direct medical treatment or testing of patients. (MEDICAL)
The first ~ trials were expected to begin next year.
...a ~ psychologist.
ADJ: ADJ n
~ly
It has been ~ly proved that it is better to stretch the tight muscles first.
ADV: usu ADV adj/-ed
2.
You use ~ to describe thought or behaviour which is very logical and does not involve any emotion.
All this questioning is so analytical and ~–it kills romance.
= impersonal
ADJ disapproval