clinic

nouncommon in dialogue

United States//ˈklɪn.ɪk//

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

noun

1
A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2
A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3
obsoleteA school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
4
A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
5
A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.
We'll also be offering music clinics, lessons, and new product demonstrations throughout the year.
6
A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7
A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8
obsoleteA bed-ridden person
9
obsoleteSomeone who receives baptism on a sickbed.
We are all Clinicks in this point
Clinic baptism is all that is contemplated by them, and even in this case a clinic was, unless in unusual cases, debarred from orders.
As "baby sprinkling" is an offence which it abhors, so Clinic sprinkling is a sham which it detests.
And as the practice of immersion in baptism in the time of St. Laurence was universal except in the case of a handful of Clinics—so small that they scarcely deserve to be named—the story is unworthy of notice.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek κλῑ́νη (klī́nē) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)bor. Late Latin clīnicus French cliniquebor. English clinic Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).

Forms

plural: clinics

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clinic · A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

clinical · Dealing with the practical management of patients, in…clink · The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.Clink · A surname.

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