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

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