clinic
English
/ˈklɪnɪk/
noun
Definitions
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- (medicine) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
- (medicine) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
- A group practice of several physicians.
- A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
- (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
- (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
Etymology
Derived from French clinique derived from Latin clinicus derived from Ancient Greek κλινικός (a bed).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κλινικός
Gloss
a bed
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aclinical English
- bioclinical English
- clinical English
- clinicality English
- clinicalize English
- clinically English
- clinician English
- clinicide English
- electroclinical English
- haematoclinical English
- histoclinical English
- immunoclinical English
- infraclinical English
- interclinician English
- monoclinic English
- multiclinical English
- nonclinical English
- nonclinician English
- paraclinical English
- polyclinic English
- polyclinical English
- postclinic English
- preclinic English
- preclinical English
- pseudoclinical English
- psychoclinic English
- psychoclinical English
- subclinical English
- supraclinical English
- teleclinic English
- triclinic English
- unclinical English
- clinicus Latin
- Klinik German
- kliniek Dutch, Flemish
- clinicien French
- clinique French
- cliniquement French
- paraclinique French
- clínico Spanish, Castilian
- κλίνη Ancient Greek
- κλινικός Ancient Greek
- κλῑνικός Ancient Greek
- clínico Portuguese
- klinik Swedish
- klinika Polish
- klinický Czech
- คลินิก Thai
- klinik Cebuano
- klinik Turkish
- kliniki Swahili
- klinik Tok Pisin
- klinieke West Flemish
- clinical
- aclinical
- clinician
- triclinic
- preclinic
- clinicide
- polyclinic
- monoclinic
- clinically
- postclinic
- teleclinic
- unclinical
- nonclinical
- bioclinical
- clinicalize
- preclinical
- clinicality
- subclinical
- polyclinical
- psychoclinic
- nonclinician
- paraclinical
- infraclinical
- histoclinical
- supraclinical
- multiclinical
- interclinician
- pseudoclinical
- psychoclinical
- immunoclinical
- electroclinical
- haematoclinical