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clinic

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  • Stati Uniti//ˈklɪn.ɪk//

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

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  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.

  3. 3

    obsoletoA school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.

  4. 4

    A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.

  5. 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. 6

    A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.

  7. 7

    A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.

  8. 8

    obsoletoA bed-ridden person

  9. 9

    obsoletoSomeone 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.

Etimologia

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”).

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