klinischen

Klinischen is the inflected form of the German adjective klinisch, meaning clinical or pertaining to the practice of medicine. It is used to describe medical settings, procedures, studies, and conditions, and appears in many standard medical and academic phrases such as klinische Studien (clinical studies) and klinische Praxis (clinical practice).

In German, klinisch declines according to case, number, and gender, and klinischen is one of its common endings. After a definite article, the weak ending -en is used in several forms, for example: die klinischen Studien (nominative plural), in der klinischen Studie (genitive singular feminine), im klinischen Umfeld (dative singular neuter). Without a definite article, different endings appear, such as eine klinische Studie (nominative singular feminine) or klinische Studien (nominative plural).

The term is central to medical discourse. It distinguishes settings and activities tied to patient care, diagnosis, and treatment in real-world clinical environments from preclinical or laboratory work. Common contexts include clinical trials, clinical guidelines, and clinical diagnostics, all of which emphasize patient-facing aspects of medicine.

Etymologically, klinisch derives from Klinik, which in turn traces to the broader Latin-derived medical lexicon for care settings. In daily use, klinischen functions as the inflected form used in phrases that refer to plural subjects or specific grammatical cases, while the base adjective klinisch remains the stem meaning “clinical.”