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pseudoclinical

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + clinical.

  1. derived from κλῑνικός
  2. derived from clīnicus
  3. borrowed from clinique
  4. suffixed as clinical — “clinic + -al”
  5. prefixed as pseudoclinical — “pseudo + clinical”

Definitions

  1. Apparently, but not actually, clinical.

    • “Despite the pseudoclinical patina of these epithets, they were just part of an editorial arsenal that seeks to demonize a suspect before he even reaches trial.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoclinical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA