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clin⋅ic
[klin-ik] 
–noun
| 1. | a place, as in connection with a medical school or a hospital, for the treatment of nonresident patients, sometimes at low cost or without charge. |
| 2. | a group of physicians, dentists, or the like, working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities. |
| 3. | a class or group convening for instruction or remedial work or for the diagnosis and treatment of specific problems: a reading clinic; a speech clinic; a summer baseball clinic for promising young players. |
| 4. | the instruction of medical students by examining or treating patients in their presence or by their examining or treating patients under supervision. |
| 5. | a class of students assembled for such instruction. |
| 6. | Sports Slang. a performance so thoroughly superior by a team or player as to be a virtual model or demonstration of excellence; rout or mismatch. |
–adjective
| 7. | of a clinic; clinical. |
Origin:
1620–30; 1885–90 for def. 1; < L clīnicus < Gk klīnikós pertaining to a (sick) bed, equiv. to kl
n(ē) bed + -ikos -ic 
1620–30; 1885–90 for def. 1; < L clīnicus < Gk klīnikós pertaining to a (sick) bed, equiv. to kl
n(ē) bed + -ikos -ic
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| clin·ic (klĭn'ĭk) n.
[French clinique, from Greek klīnikē (tekhnē), clinical (method), feminine of klīnikos, from klīnē, couch, bed; see clinandrium.] |
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Clinic
Clin"ic\, n. [See Clinical.]1. One confined to the bed by sickness. 2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] --Hook. 3. (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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Language Translation for : Clinic
Spanish:
clínica,
German:
die Klinik,
Japanese:
診療所
clinic
1626, from L. clinicus "physician," from Gk. klinike (techne) "(practice) at the sickbed," from klinikos "of the bed," from kline "bed," from suffixed form of PIE base *kli- "lean, slope" (see lean (v.)). An adj. originally in Eng., then "sick person," sense of "hospital" is 1884, from Ger. Klinik, itself from Fr. clinique. Clinical is from 1780; meaning "coldly detached, like a medical report" is 1928.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: clin·ic
Pronunciation: 'klin-ik
Function: noun
1 a : a session or class of medical instruction in a hospital held at the bedsideof patients serving as case studies b : a group of selected patients presented with discussion before doctors (as at a convention) for purposes of instruction
2 a : an institution connected with a hospital or medical school where diagnosis and treatment are made available to outpatients b : a form of group practice in which several physicians (asspecialists) work in cooperative association
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clinic clin·ic (klĭn'ĭk)
n.
- A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the diagnosis and care of outpatients.
- A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
- A group session offering counsel or instruction in a particular field or activity.
- 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.
- A place where such instruction occurs.
- A class or lecture of medical instruction conducted in this manner.
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clinic
an organized medical service offering diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive treatment to ambulatory patients. Often in Europe and occasionally in the United States the term covers the entire teaching centre, including the hospital and the ambulatory-patient facilities. The medical care offered by a clinic may or may not be connected with a hospital.
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