kliinisiä

Kliinisiä is the partitive plural form of the Finnish adjective kliininen, meaning "clinical" or "relating to the clinic and patient care." It is used to describe nouns in the partitive case and occurs mostly in medical, healthcare, and research contexts.

In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case. The form kliinisiä indicates plural nouns in the partitive (for example kliinisiä tutkimuksia, “clinical studies”; kliinisiä oireita, “clinical symptoms”). The word can appear in phrases describing settings, procedures, or findings in clinical work.

Common uses include kliinisiä tutkimuksia (clinical studies), kliinisiä oireita (clinical symptoms), kliinisiä arviointeja (clinical assessments), and other phrases where the noun is in partitive. The form is not a standalone noun but an inflected adjective used within noun phrases.

Etymology and terminology: kliininen is part of the standard Finnish medical vocabulary and is derived from the international clinical lexicon, with roots in Latin or Greek through European languages. As Finnish, it forms a family of related terms such as kliininen tutkimus (clinical research) and kliininen hoito (clinical care).