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Webster 1913 Edition
Clinic
1.
One confined to the bed by sickness.
2.
(Eccl.)
One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
[Obs.]
Hook.
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.
{
, Clin′ic-al
(klĭn′ĭk-al)
, Clin′ic
(klĭn′ĭk)
}Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
2.
Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Clinic
CLINIC
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clinic
clinic
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Alternative forms
- clinique (archaic)
Noun
clinic (plural clinics)
A clinic for students in an American high school
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
- (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.
- A group practice of several physicians.
- A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
- (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
- (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
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medical facility
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