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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024clin•ic /ˈklɪnɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Medicinea place for the medical treatment of patients who are not staying at a hospital.
- Medicinea group of physicians, etc., working together or sharing facilities:a blood-disease clinic.
- a group meeting for extra instruction: a reading clinic.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024clin•ic (klin′ik),USA pronunciation n. - 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.
- Medicinea group of physicians, dentists, or the like, working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
- 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.
- the instruction of medical students by examining or treating patients in their presence or by their examining or treating patients under supervision.
- a class of students assembled for such instruction.
- Sporta performance so thoroughly superior by a team or player as to be a virtual model or demonstration of excellence;
rout or mismatch.
adj. - of a clinic;
clinical.
- Greek klīnikós pertaining to a (sick) bed, equivalent. to klí̄n(ē) bed + -ikos -ic
- Latin clīnicus
- 1620–30; 1885–90 for def. 1;
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: clinic /ˈklɪnɪk/ n - a place in which outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, often connected to a hospital
- a similar place staffed by physicians or surgeons specializing in one or more specific areas: eye clinic
- Brit a private hospital or nursing home
- obsolete the teaching of medicine to students at the bedside
- chiefly US Canadian a group or centre that offers advice or instruction
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin clīnicus one on a sickbed, from Greek, from klinē bed |