'Clinic' definitions:
Definition of 'clinic'
(from WordNet)
noun
A medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
noun
Meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity
noun
A healthcare facility for outpatient care
Definition of 'Clinic'
From: GCIDE
- Clinical \Clin"ic*al\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k*al), Clinic \Clin"ic\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k), a. [Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. [1913 Webster]
- Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.
- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics.
- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.
- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Clinic'
From: GCIDE
- Clinic \Clin"ic\, n. [See Clinical.]
- 1. One confined to the bed by sickness. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] --Hook. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients. [PJC]
- 4. (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils. [1913 Webster]
- 5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested. [PJC]
- 6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [fig.] [PJC] Clinical
Synonyms of 'clinic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asylum,
- base hospital,
- blood bank,
- charity ward,
- community hospital,
- consultation room,
- convalescent home,
- convalescent hospital,
- delivery room,
- dispensary,
- emergency,
- evacuation hospital,
- examining room,
- fever ward,
- field hospital,
- general hospital,
- home,
- hospital,
- hospital room,
- infirmary,
- inpatient clinic,
- intensive care,
- isolation,
- labor room,
- laboratory,
- maison de sante,
- maternity ward,
- mental hospital,
- nursery,
- nursing home,
- operating room,
- osteopathic hospital,
- outpatient clinic,
- pharmacy,
- policlinic,
- polyclinic,
- prison ward,
- private hospital,
- private room,
- proprietary hospital,
- public hospital,
- recovery room,
- rest home,
- sanatorium,
- semi-private room,
- sick bay,
- sickbed,
- sickroom,
- special hospital,
- station hospital,
- surgery,
- surgical hospital,
- teaching hospital,
- therapy,
- treatment room,
- VA hospital,
- veterans hospital,
- voluntary hospital,
- ward,
- well-baby clinic,
- X ray
Words containing 'Clinic'
- Clinical,
- Clinically,
- Clinical baptism,
- Clinical instruction,
- Clinical lecture,
- Clinical medicine,
- Clinical surgery,
- baseball clinic,
- basketball clinic,
- clinical anatomy,
- clinical depression,
- clinical neurology,
- clinical psychologist,
- clinical psychology,
- clinical test,
- clinical thermometer,
- clinical trial,
- eye clinic,
- hockey clinic,
- reading clinic,
- clinical detached unemotional,
- phase i clinical trial,
- phase ii clinical trial,
- phase iii clinical trial,
- phase iv clinical trial,
- mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer