| 单词 | diabetic clinic | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdiabetic clinic  2.  				 [After French clinique, German klinik.]					 (a) A private hospital or medical institution to which patients are recommended by individual doctors;		 (b) (formerly) an institution attached to a hospital or medical school at which patients received treatment free of cost or at reduced fees; (now esp.) a hospital department devoted to a particular group of diseases, etc., usually with defining epithet, as  diabetic clinic,  fracture clinic, etc.; also, a centre or other institution at which specialized treatment, diagnosis, or advice is available, as  child guidance clinic,  dental clinic, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > 			[noun]		 > clinic clinic1889 1889    Lancet 22 June 1283/2  				Two new hospitals have just been opened in Moscow. One of these is a lying-in clinic attached to the University. 1892    Cosmopolitan Oct. 766/1  				Clinics that are held by the professors of diseases of the eye. 1895    Daily News 18 June 6/2  				The Council of State in St. Petersburg is busy with the project of a medical institute for women... After completing their studies the students will have to practice for one to three years in womens' clinics or similar hospitals. 1902    Lancet 25 Jan. 235/1  				Dr. Mendes has put together a number of interesting observations which he has made in his clinic. 1909    Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/1  				The clinic opens at nine on every school-day and also on Saturday with examination of cases. 1922    Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 875/1  				The many specialized clinics—prenatal, ‘baby’, dental, venereal disease, psychiatric etc. 1951    ‘M. Innes’ Operation Pax 207  				‘What is a clinic?’.. ‘I think it's becoming a fashionable word for a grand sort of nursing home—the sort that has one special line.’ 1952    Oxf. Junior Encycl. X. 183/1  				There has gradually grown up the practice of dealing with special types of patients in properly equipped clinics or centres; women during pregnancy, for example, are seen at ante-natal clinics, while small children and babies are examined at special children's clinics. 1961    A. S. MacNalty Brit. Med. Dict. 318/2  				Patients who have been in hospital may attend clinics for after-treatment. < as lemmas | 
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