单词 | policlinic |
释义 | policlinicn. Originally (in Germany): †a department of a hospital where poor patients are treated free of charge by advanced medical students under the supervision of a professor, either as outpatients in the hospital, or (if they are bedridden) on home visits (obsolete). Later: a hospital or hospital department (†or a dispensary) where outpatients are treated by specialists (this is now the usual sense in German). Cf. polyclinic n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > clinic > for outpatients policlinic1827 polyclinic1884 1827 Lancet 17 Nov. 256/2 [In Germany] those students who have duly attended the clinics, are admitted to the policlinics. In these, poor patients are treated by students, under the superintendence of an experienced..physician. 1881 Lancet 1 Oct. 585/2 The medical policlinic is divided into the ambulatorium proper and into the so-called district-policlinic, or patients who are treated at their own houses, and each division is under the direction of a special policlinical professor. 1886 W. T. Gairdner in A. Christison et al. Life Sir R. Christison II. vii. 121 His was a true ‘poliklinik’, though in full operation here before the term was invented in Germany. 1909 W. L. Fleming South in Building of Nation 331 He then studied in Vienna, 1885–86, and became assistant in ophthalmology at the Royal Policlinic in Vienna in 1886. 1924 M. V. O'Shea Child 495 He was associate professor of nervous and mental diseases in Chicago Policlinic during 1903–16. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xvi. 543 Policlinics, municipal nurses and charitable relief help the mentally diseased to obtain in good time the treatment, in or out of asylums, of which they stand in need. 1987 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 540/1 Friends visiting from the impoverished [Dutch] National Health Service stand open mouthed at the policlinic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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