clinic

(klinik)

noun

  1. the teaching of medicine by examining and treating patients in the presence of students
  2. a class so taught
  3. a place where patients are studied or treated by specialist physicians practicing as a group
  4. a department of a hospital or medical school, where outpatients are treated, sometimes without being charged or for a small fee
  5. an organization or institution that offers some kind of advice, treatment, or instruction: a maternal health clinic
  6. a brief, intensive session of group instruction in a specific skill, field of knowledge, etc.: a basketball clinic

Origin: Fr clinique < Gr klinikē (technē), (practice) at the sickbed < klinikos, of the bed < klinē, bed < klinein, to recline: see lean

See clinic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the diagnosis and care of outpatients.
  2. A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
  3. A group session offering counsel or instruction in a particular field or activity: a vocational clinic; a tennis clinic.
  4. a. A seminar or meeting of physicians and medical students in which medical instruction is conducted in the presence of the patient, as at the bedside.
    b. A place where such instruction occurs.
    c. A class or lecture of medical instruction conducted in this manner.

Origin:

Origin: French clinique

Origin: , from Greek klīnikē (tekhnē), clinical (method)

Origin: , feminine of klīnikos

Origin: , from klīnē, couch, bed; see clinandrium

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suffix
  1. Sloping: isoclinic.
  2. Having a specified number of oblique axial intersections: triclinic.

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