clinic

[clin·ic]

A clinic is a doctor's office, particularly one that specializes in one kind of medicine. After you're diagnosed with a broken leg, you may be referred to an orthopedic clinic.

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One confined to the bed by sickness.

Noun
a healthcare facility for outpatient care

Noun
meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity

Noun
a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists


n.
One confined to the bed by sickness.

n.
One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

n.
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.

v. i.
Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

v. i.
Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.


Clinic

Clin"ic , n. [See Clinical.] 1. One confined to the bed by sickness. 2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook. 3. (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.

One confined to the bed by sickness.

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Usage Examples

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

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Other Usage Examples

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

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