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Webster 1913 Edition


Clinic

Clin′ic

,
Noun.
[See
Clinical
.]
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.
[Gr.
κλινικός
, fr.
κλίνη
bed, fr.
κλίνειν
to lean, recline: cf. F.
clinique
. See
Lean
,
Verb.
I.
]
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

,

Definition 2024


clínic

clínic

See also: clinic and -clinic

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Adjective

clínic m (feminine clínica, masculine plural clínics, feminine plural clíniques)

  1. clinical

Noun

clínic m (plural clínics, feminine clínica)

  1. clinician

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