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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


clinic

clinic

See also: clínic and -clinic

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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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