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clinic

[ klin-ik ]

noun

  1. a place, as in connection with a medical school or a hospital, for the treatment of nonresident patients, sometimes at low cost or without charge.
  2. a group of physicians, dentists, or the like, working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
  3. a class or group convening for instruction or remedial work or for the diagnosis and treatment of specific problems:

    a reading clinic; a speech clinic; a summer baseball clinic for promising young players.

  4. the instruction of medical students by examining or treating patients in their presence or by their examining or treating patients under supervision.
  5. a class of students assembled for such instruction.
  6. Sports Slang. a performance so thoroughly superior by a team or player as to be a virtual model or demonstration of excellence; rout or mismatch.


adjective

  1. of a clinic; clinical.

clinic

/ ˈɪɪ /

noun

  1. a place in which outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, often connected to a hospital
  2. a similar place staffed by physicians or surgeons specializing in one or more specific areas

    eye clinic

  3. a private hospital or nursing home
  4. obsolete.
    the teaching of medicine to students at the bedside
  5. a place in which medical lectures are given
  6. a clinical lecture
  7. a group or centre that offers advice or instruction

    a vocational clinic

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clinic1

1620–30; 1885–90 clinic fordef 1; < Latin īԾܲ < Greek īԾó pertaining to a (sick) bed, equivalent to ī́ ( ŧ ) bed + -ikos -ic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clinic1

C17: from Latin īԾܲ one on a sickbed, from Greek, from klinŧ bed
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Soni, a Harvard-trained primary care doctor who sees patients one day a week at an urgent care clinic in Los Angeles County’s public safety net health system, is familiar with the challenges those communities face.

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The venerable system of health clinics, based in South Los Angeles, on Thursday joined about 10 other nonprofits in launching a media campaign that will focus on half a dozen U.S.

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Where one of Gomez’s own auxiliary bishops, the late David O’Connell, fought environmental racism on behalf of Black parishioners in South L.A., stood with striking hotel workers and prayed with parishioners outside Planned Parenthood clinics.

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But in Oregon, where these clinics are already operational, psychedelic therapy typically costs thousands of dollars per session.

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She co-owns a beauty clinic in central Beijing and has become one of the most recognisable faces of China's plastic surgery boom.

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