CLINICS

Noun

clinics

plural of clinic

Source: Wiktionary


CLINIC

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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