Clinicamente

Clinicamente is an adverb used in Spanish and Portuguese to mean "in a clinical sense" or "from a clinical perspective." It signals that information, evidence, or judgments derive from clinical observation of patients or from real-world medical practice, rather than from theoretical reasoning or laboratory experiments. The term is commonly used in medical literature to distinguish patient-based evidence from preclinical or purely laboratory data.

Etymology and usage notes: Clinicamente derives from clinicalus or klinikós, related to the clinic or bed (from Greek klinē, bed) and the adjectival form clinicalus in Latin. In both Spanish and Portuguese, the word is written with the diacritic in the standard form кли́ничamente, though orthographic conventions may vary by language. It is often paired with adjectives such as significativo (significativo clínicamente) or relevante to denote the practical relevance of findings to patient care.

Usage in discourse: In clinical research and practice, the phrase is used to describe outcomes observed in patients rather than in laboratory conditions. Examples include “un resultado clínicamente significativo” (a clinically significant result) or “eficacia clínicamente demostrada” (clinically demonstrated efficacy). Distinctions are sometimes made between clinical significance and statistical significance, the latter referring to mathematical probability rather than real-world impact on patients.

See also: clinical practice, clinical trials, clinical significance, evidence from patient care.