Clinic
['klɪnɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a healthcare facility for outpatient care.
(noun.) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity.
(noun.) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists.
Edited by Ingram--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
(n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
(v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Edited by Cheryl
Definition
adj. pertaining to a bed: (med.) applied to instruction given in hospitals at the bedside of the patient.—n. Clin′ic one confined to bed by sickness: the teaching of medicine or surgery practically at the bedside of the patient—also Clin′ique.—adv. Clin′ically.—Clinical baptism baptism administered to persons on their sick-bed; Clinical convert one converted on his death-bed; Clinical medicine or surgery medicine or surgery as taught by clinics a Clinical lecture being one delivered to students at the bedside of the sick.
Typed by Betsy
Examples
- He has a clinic there. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Afterwards we visit them in the clinic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He said he made a pretty good living by going around to different clinics and getting $10 at each clinic, because of having the worst case of heart-disease on record. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He said he made a pretty good living by going around to different clinics and getting $10 at each clinic, because of having the worst case of heart-disease on record. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The temples were not only observatories and libraries and clinics, they were museums and treasure-houses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Stu