Letter C

Clinical

<B>1.</B> Having to do with the examination and treatment of patients.

<B>2.</B> Applicable to patients.

A laboratory test may be of clinical value (of use to patients).

The term comes through the French 'clinique' from the Greek 'kline' (a couch or bed).

Clinical medicine was (and is) practiced at the bedside.

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