clinicals
- 1Plural of clinical.
The hospital schedules clinicals for each cohort of medical trainees.
Her clinicals took place across three different departments last semester.
Note
A trainee's word for time spent with real patients, and a plural that only the noun can have. The adjective clinical, as in clinical medicine or a clinical manner, never takes an -s, so the -s itself tells you the noun is meant. In medical and nursing education the plural is the usual form, naming the whole series of supervised placements rather than a single session.
clinicals is a form of clinical
clinical, noun: A period of hands-on training in which a medical or nursing student works with patients in a real hospital or other care setting. Full entry
- Forms
- clinicalclinicals plural
- Spelling
- clinical → clinicals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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