clinic
/ˈklɪn.ɪk/ noun
Forms clinics clinique
- noun A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- noun (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
- noun (medicine, obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
- noun A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
- noun A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject. “A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.”
- noun A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
- noun (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- noun (obsolete) A bed-ridden person
Etymology
Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun One confined to the bed by sickness.
- noun One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
- adjective 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.
Etymology [See Clinical.]
Etymology [Gr. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “clinic”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details