clinic

• clinique (archaic)

From French clinique, from Late Latin clinicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klinikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλίνη (klínē, “bed”), from κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɪnɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪnɪk

clinic (plural clinics)

A clinic for students in an American high school

1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. (medicine, obsolete) 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.
4. A group practice of several physicians.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
9. (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.

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• clinal
• cline

• clinic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• clinic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• clinic at OneLook Dictionary Search

clinic (not comparable)

1. clinical

• clinica