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clinic
/ˈklɪn.ɪk/
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What does clinic mean?
noun
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
- A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
More meanings (6)
noun
- A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
- A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- (obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
- (obsolete) A bed-ridden person
- (obsolete) Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈklɪn.ɪk/
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How involuntarily the inmost thought breaks through under such circumstances, is shown by an occurrence in a surgical clinic.
Two of the cases were clearly insane and were detained for long periods in asylums after their study in the clinic.
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After the clinic was all attended to, we retired to our tents and the screeching-hot bath so grateful in the tropics.
In one clinic where this method has been adopted the frequency of all kinds of toxemia, I am told, has notably diminished, and serious types are not permitted to develop.
The professors of the Berlin clinic, however, considered it worth while to lecture about the man's skin, pronouncing it an inexplicable matter.