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CLINIC
clinic
(noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care
clinic
(noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity
clinic
(noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
clinic (plural clinics)
A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
(medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
(medicine, obsolete) 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.
A group practice of several physicians.
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.
(wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
(obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
(obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
Source: Wiktionary
Clin"ic, n. Etym: [See Clinical.]
1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
2. (Eccl.)
Definition: One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.
3. (Med.)
Definition: 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.
Clin"ic*al, Clin"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. 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 illustrared 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
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