clinic
noun /ˈklɪnɪk/
/ˈklɪnɪk/
- Your local family planning clinic can give you advice about birth control.
Extra ExamplesTopics Medicineb2- He was treated at the hospital's eye clinic.
- She is being treated at a diabetic clinic.
- She works in a birth control clinic.
- The clinic is staffed by volunteers.
- Most of the crash victims were treated in a local clinic but a 13-year-old was hospitalized.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hospital
- health
- medical
- …
- attend
- go to
- visit
- …
- specialize in something
- offer
- provide
- …
- doctor
- nurse
- staff
- …
- at a/the clinic
- in a/the clinic
- clinic for
- …
- The antenatal clinic is on Wednesdays.
- Doctors held a special clinic to talk to worried parents after a child at the school died of meningitis.
Extra Examples- The surgery holds a baby clinic every Wednesday afternoon.
- We operate free rural health clinics.
- a clinic for asthma sufferers
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hospital
- health
- medical
- …
- attend
- go to
- visit
- …
- specialize in something
- offer
- provide
- …
- doctor
- nurse
- staff
- …
- at a/the clinic
- in a/the clinic
- clinic for
- …
- He is being treated at the London clinic.
- a rehabilitation clinic for alcoholics
Extra ExamplesTopics Medicineb2- She was ordered to attend a drug rehabilitation clinic.
- He is being treated at a clinic in Harley Street.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hospital
- health
- medical
- …
- attend
- go to
- visit
- …
- specialize in something
- offer
- provide
- …
- doctor
- nurse
- staff
- …
- at a/the clinic
- in a/the clinic
- clinic for
- …
- Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- hospital
- health
- medical
- …
- attend
- go to
- visit
- …
- specialize in something
- offer
- provide
- …
- doctor
- nurse
- staff
- …
- at a/the clinic
- in a/the clinic
- clinic for
- …
- an occasion in a hospital when medical students learn by watching a specialist examine and treat patientsOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- hospital
- health
- medical
- …
- attend
- go to
- visit
- …
- specialize in something
- offer
- provide
- …
- doctor
- nurse
- staff
- …
- at a/the clinic
- in a/the clinic
- clinic for
- …
- an occasion at which a professional person, especially a sportsman or sportswoman gives advice and training
- a coaching clinic for young tennis players
- Holmes put on a boxing clinic and beat Shavers twelve out of twelve rounds.
Word Originmid 19th cent. (in the sense ‘teaching of medicine at the bedside’): from French clinique, from Greek klinikē (tekhnē) ‘bedside (art)’, from klinē ‘bed’.