clinic
clinic
Definition
clinic (klin′ik)
noun
- the teaching of medicine by examining and treating patients in the presence of students
- a class so taught
- a place where patients are studied or treated by specialist physicians practicing as a group
- a department of a hospital or medical school, where outpatients are treated, sometimes without being charged or for a small fee
- an organization or institution that offers some kind of advice, treatment, or instruction a maternal health clinic
- a brief, intensive session of group instruction in a specific skill, field of knowledge, etc. a basketball clinic
Etymology: Fr clinique < Gr klinikē (technē), (practice) at the sickbed < klinikos, of the bed < klinē, bed < klinein, to recline: see lean
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Synonyms
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Usage Examples
Converse of object
- attend: The helpline will invite them to attend a hospital clinic or their GP for a blood test.
- breastfeed: He now holds breastfeeding clinics in several hospitals in the Toronto area.
- specialize: The LT rejected the transactions by specialists and specialized clinics as being too different both in use and type of premises.
- run: Practice nurses also run specialist clinics within their GP practice, for example diabetes or asthma clinics.
Preposition: for
- check-up: Two years ago I went to the sexual health clinic for a check-up.
Adjective modifier
- antenatal: Do you have antenatal clinics or scans in the Queen Mother's Hospital?
- out-patient: Six in-patient and twelve out-patient beds are planned, along with four out-patient research clinics.
- diabetic: They have been skilled up by working in the practice alongside practice nurses within diabetic clinic.
- ante-natal: Just tell her not to mention it at the ante-natal clinic, she'll get lynched!
- genitourinary: Foley E, Patel R, Green N, Rowen D. Access to genitourinary medicine clinics in the United Kingdom.
- walk-in: The Times reports that the Government is to create a chain of walk-in clinics in main railroad stations to relieve the pressure on GPs.
Modifies a noun
- mayo: If clinic diet mayo recipe ever him on You heard vanished.
- appointment: To allow plenty of time for this, each clinic appointment is at least half an hour long.
- attendance: Women negotiate clinic attendance with husbands and older female relatives.
Noun used with modifier
- outpatient: Only around 25 % of people who visit an outpatient clinic go on to be admitted to hospital.
- nurse-led: Patients ' and nurses ' views of nurse-led heart failure clinics in general practice: a qualitative study.
- fertility: Ten fertility clinics in the UK are licensed to test embryos.
- outreach: None of these ever came to the ' outreach clinic ' .
- drop-in: We represent Hearing Concern two or three times a week at the drop-in hearing aid repair clinic at our local hospital.
- abortion: I need private abortions, against abortions getting abortions, abortions clinics.
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