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Clinic
//ˈklɪn.ɪk// noun
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Noun
- 1 A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- 2 a healthcare facility for outpatient care wordnet
- 3 A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients. broadly
- 4 meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity wordnet
- 5 A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils. obsolete
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- 6 a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists wordnet
- 7 A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
- 8 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."
- 9 A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
- 10 A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- 11 A bed-ridden person obsolete
- 12 Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed. obsolete
"We are all Clinicks in this point"
Etymology
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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