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clinic

[ klin-ik ]

noun

  1. a place, as in connection with a medical school or a hospital, for the treatment of nonresident patients, sometimes at low cost or without charge.
  2. a group of physicians, dentists, or the like, working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
  3. a class or group convening for instruction or remedial work or for the diagnosis and treatment of specific problems:

    a reading clinic; a speech clinic; a summer baseball clinic for promising young players.

  4. the instruction of medical students by examining or treating patients in their presence or by their examining or treating patients under supervision.
  5. a class of students assembled for such instruction.
  6. Sports Slang. a performance so thoroughly superior by a team or player as to be a virtual model or demonstration of excellence; rout or mismatch.


adjective

  1. of a clinic; clinical.

clinic

/ ˈklɪnɪk /

noun

  1. a place in which outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, often connected to a hospital
  2. a similar place staffed by physicians or surgeons specializing in one or more specific areas

    eye clinic

  3. a private hospital or nursing home
  4. obsolete.
    the teaching of medicine to students at the bedside
  5. a place in which medical lectures are given
  6. a clinical lecture
  7. a group or centre that offers advice or instruction

    a vocational clinic

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clinic1

1620–30; 1885–90 clinic fordef 1; < Latin clīnicus < Greek klīnikós pertaining to a (sick) bed, equivalent to klī́n ( ē ) bed + -ikos -ic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clinic1

C17: from Latin clīnicus one on a sickbed, from Greek, from klinē bed
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Example Sentences

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From Fortune

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135 represents more than 13,000 workers in grocery and drug stores, hospitals and clinics, and many other essential businesses across the county.

Meanwhile, the Virtue Foundation worked with local health services to strategically distribute ventilators, oxygen cylinders, personal protective equipment, and other supplies to the region’s hospitals and clinics.

The fact there are lots of smaller providers — so, nimble health care clinics that can take care of things quickly.

So the patient doesn’t have to go to a methadone clinic every day.

As reparation, the court ordered $563 to be paid out to Yang and required the clinic to post an apology on its website.

That same day a 13-year-old girl was arrested with explosives hidden under her hijab after walking into a medical clinic.

Tests at the clinic proved what she suspected: she was pregnant.

Tamara Loertscher went to the Eau Claire Mayo Clinic in early August when she thought she was pregnant.

The pensioners complained that authorities were closing their Khamovniki district clinic.

He was on a small table, like an operating table; the whole place looked like a medical lab or a clinic.

In Paris we see hardly grown youths appearing at the specialist's clinic, quite proud that they need to be treated for gonorrhoea.

The scene is a laboratory, with rows of raised seats at one side for the physicians who attend the clinic.

Between 1823 and 1840 were published the five volumes of his Medical Clinic, which made him famous.

She might be ill and have disappeared without a word to some doctor's clinic, as Braybrooke had suggested.

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