clinical medicine

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

Noun

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

Coordinate terms

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