Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the diagnosis and care of outpatients.
- noun A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
- noun A group session offering counsel or instruction in a particular field or activity.
- noun 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.
- noun A place where such instruction occurs.
- noun A class or lecture of medical instruction conducted in this manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
clinical . - noun One confined to bed by sickness.
- noun Eccles., formerly, one who received baptism on a sick-bed.
- noun In medicine, an examination of a patient by an instructor in the presence of his students, accompanied by remarks on the nature and treatment of the case. Also written
clinique . - noun Same as
dispensary , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One confined to the bed by sickness.
- noun (Eccl.), obsolete One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
- noun (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.
- noun (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.
- noun 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.
- noun (sports), fig. a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A medical facility, such as a
hospital , especially one for the treatment and diagnosis ofoutpatients . - noun A group practice of several
physicians . - noun A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- noun A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow
politicians to meet theirconstituents . - noun wrestling A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- noun obsolete One confined to bed by sickness.
- noun obsolete One who receives
baptism on asickbed . - noun medicine, obsolete A
school , or asession of a school orclass , in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity
- noun a healthcare facility for outpatient care
- noun a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term clinic is a bit misleading, it appeared to be the guardhouse where the rubbish used to be kept that had been cleared out into two usable rooms, one of which was a shower.
BlogCymru.com 2009
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So for us, the clinic is the way to go - no effort to keep medicine on hand and self medicate (which we don't know how to do anyway). ignacio
Plague of Flies 2007
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We are taking the attitude that this clinic is a tourist trap and will turn the page and move on ... if we can solve the pain.
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The Taliban does claim that several innocent civilians were killed when U.S. bombs hit what they called a clinic -- a Red Cross resupply clinic in the city of Kandahar.
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AltaPointe's clinic is seeing twice as many new patients as in 2009, an increase it blames on the spill.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish AP 2010
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The clinic is NOT claiming that Perdue dumped pollution into the river.
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The clinic is one of the "pregnancy crisis centers" that have been denounced by reproductive rights supporters who say they proselytize to pregnant women about the evils of abortion.
Obama administration's sex-ed program criticized by both sides of abstinence debate Rob Stein 2010
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The clinic is alleging that two chicken farmers dumped pollution into the river.
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The downtown eastside area where the clinic is based was considered by the Canadian Community
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AltaPointe's clinic is seeing twice as many new patients as in 2009, an increase it blames on the spill.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish AP 2010
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