Therapeutic vs Clinical - What's the difference?
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Of, or relating to therapy.
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Isaac Watts
Of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.
Dealing with how to practically manage patients, contrasting with prehealth sciences.
Done in a cool, emotionless fashion.
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As adjectives the difference between therapeutic and clinical
is that therapeutic is of, or relating to therapy while clinical is of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.therapeutic
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Alternative forms
* therapeutick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Therapeutic or curative physic.
- Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic , or the art of restoring it.
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Medicine is now more often practiced in a clinical setting than in the home.
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- 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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