Clinic Definition
klĭnĭk
clinics
noun
A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
American Heritage Medicine
A class so taught.
Webster's New World
The teaching of medicine by examining and treating patients in the presence of students.
Webster's New World
A department of a hospital or medical school, where outpatients are treated, sometimes without being charged or for a small fee.
Webster's New World
A place where patients are studied or treated by specialist physicians practicing as a group.
Webster's New World
suffix
Sloping.
Isoclinic.
American Heritage
Having a specified number of oblique axial intersections.
Triclinic.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Clinic
Noun
Singular:
clinic
Plural:
clinicsOrigin of Clinic
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From French clinique, from Late Latin clinicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klinikos, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλίνη (klinē, “bed”), from κλίνειν (klinein, “to lean, incline”).
From Wiktionary
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French clinique from Greek klīnikē (tekhnē) clinical (method) feminine of klīnikos from klīnē couch, bed clinandrium
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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