Clinic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clinic \Clin"ic\, n. [See {Clinical}.]
     1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
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     2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.]
        --Hook.


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     3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school
        or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.
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     4. (Med.) 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.
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     5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert
        in some activity, in which the errors of the students are
        pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.
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     6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a
        model for emulation. [fig.]
        [PJC] Clinical

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clinical \Clin"ic*al\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k*al), Clinic \Clin"ic\
     (kl[i^]n"[i^]k), a. [Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr.
     kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See {Lean}, v.
     i.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
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     2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease
        in the living subject.
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     {Clinical baptism}, baptism administered to a person on a
        sick bed.
  
     {Clinical instruction}, instruction by means of clinics.
  
     {Clinical lecture} (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics
        illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living
        patients.
  
     {Clinical medicine}, {Clinical surgery}, that part of
        medicine or surgery which is occupied with the
        investigation of disease in the living subject.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clinic
       n 1: a medical establishment run by a group of medical
            specialists
       2: meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or
          remedial work in a particular activity
       3: a healthcare facility for outpatient care

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "clinic":
     VA hospital, X ray, asylum, base hospital, blood bank,
     charity ward, community hospital, consultation room,
     convalescent home, convalescent hospital, delivery room,
     dispensary, emergency, evacuation hospital, examining room,
     fever ward, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital,
     hospital room, infirmary, inpatient clinic, intensive care,
     isolation, labor room, laboratory, maison de sante, maternity ward,
     mental hospital, nursery, nursing home, operating room,
     osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, pharmacy, policlinic,
     polyclinic, prison ward, private hospital, private room,
     proprietary hospital, public hospital, recovery room, rest home,
     sanatorium, semi-private room, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom,
     special hospital, station hospital, surgery, surgical hospital,
     teaching hospital, therapy, treatment room, veterans hospital,
     voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic