The study and practice of medicine by direct examination of the patient.
The study and treatment of patients in a hospital ward or in the doctors surgery, as opposed to in the operating theatre or laboratory.
The branch of medicine dealing with the study of patients in bed or in an examining room and the diagnosis and treatment of disease there, as opposed to the study of disease by ‘pathology or other laboratory work.
Observation and treatment at the bedside; the practice of medicine in the clinical setting as distinguished from laboratory science.