Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.

Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.

Dealing with how to practically manage patients, contrasting with prehealth sciences.

Done in a cool, emotionless fashion.

* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

Remarkably United’s 10 men almost salvaged an improbable draw during a late, spirited challenge. They showed great competitive courage in that period and there were chances for Robin van Persie, Ángel Di María and Marouane Fellaini to punish City for defending too deeply and not being more clinical with their opportunities at the other end.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Having no stake or interest in the outcome; free of bias, impartial.

* 1791 , (James Boswell), Life of Samuel Johnson :

Sir, you have a right to that kind of respect, and are arguing for yourself. I am supporting the principle, and am disinterested in doing it, as I have no such right.

* 1919 , , :

With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; [...]

*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 220:

*:People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party.

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Uninterested, lacking interest.

* 1684 , Contempl. State of Man I. x

How dis-interested are they in all Worldly matters, since they fling their Wealth and Riches into the Sea.

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 43:

Robin took to wandering again, to intermittent travel from which she came back hours, days later, disinterested .

* 1967 , Tommy Frazer, The Sun (Baltimore), "A 'Doctor' Of Karate", March 27

Those spotted are usually taught so slowly that they grow disinterested and quit.