# clinic

Pronunciation: say "KLIN-ik" /ˈklɪnɪk/

## Noun

1. A medical facility, especially one where patients are diagnosed and treated without staying overnight.
   - Simple: A place where doctors see and treat people who do not stay overnight.
   - _The rural clinic treats hundreds of outpatients each week without admitting them._
   - _After the accident, he was referred to a specialist clinic for follow-up care._
2. A group practice made up of several physicians or other health professionals working together.
   - Simple: A place where several doctors or health workers work together as a team.
   - _The downtown clinic employs a dozen physicians across several specialties._
   - _Several family doctors merged their offices into one large clinic last year._
3. A meeting held to train people in a particular subject or to diagnose problems within it.
   - Simple: A meeting where people learn about a topic or get help fixing problems.
   - _The college offered a résumé clinic for graduating students each spring._
   - _Master gardeners hosted a clinic on pruning fruit trees._
4. A scheduled session at a hospital during which patients are diagnosed or treated.
   - Simple: A set time at a hospital when patients come to be checked or treated.
   - _The consultant sees forty patients at her Thursday clinic._
   - _Antenatal clinics are held weekly in the maternity wing._
5. A series of training workouts designed to build participants' skills regardless of which team they belong to.
   - Simple: A set of training sessions where players improve their skills, no matter what team they are on.
   - _The summer clinic drew young pitchers from across the state._
   - _A two-day clinic refined the recruits' marksmanship._
6. A temporary office held on a regular schedule so that a politician can meet with constituents.
   - Simple: A regular time and place where a politician meets local people to hear their concerns.
   - _Each month the council member runs a clinic for local residents._
   - _Constituents lined up at the senator's clinic to raise their concerns._

## Noun

7. A school or class in which medicine or surgery was taught by examining and treating patients in front of the students. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A class where students learned medicine by watching doctors treat real patients.
8. A person who is confined to bed, especially by long-term illness or infirmity. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A person who must stay in bed because of long illness.
9. A person who receives baptism while lying ill on a sickbed rather than in church. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A person baptized while sick in bed, not in a church.
   - _The priest hurried to baptize the fevered clinic before nightfall._
   - _Too weak to be carried to the font, the clinic was baptized where he lay._

## Origin

Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (a bed-ridden person, or a physician), from Ancient Greek klīnikós ("pertaining to a bed"), from klī́nē ("bed"), from klī́nō ("to lean, incline").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/clinic (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).