nonclinical adjective4 •Not clinical. •Medical but not clinical in the sense of clinical medicine, being instead, for example, radiological, histopathological, surgical, or laboratorial. •Not medical, being instead lay in nature, or at most paramedical. •Lacking clinical objectivity; subjective; emotional.Societal approaches to mental illness often clearly reflect a nonclinical bias, as for example with stigmatization or fear.
