clinic
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Noun (3)clinics
- a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialistsType of medical institutionKinds eye clinic
- meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activityType of sessionKinds reading clinic, baseball clinic, hockey clinic, basketball clinic
- a healthcare facility for outpatient careType of medical building, health facilityKinds dispensaryPart of hospital, infirmary
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Translations
Noun medical facility
- Spanish
- clínica
- French
- clinique
- German
- Klinik
- Italian
- clinica
- Portuguese
- clínica
- Turkish
- klinik
- Russian
- кли́ника klínika
- Arabic
- عِيَادَة ʕiyāda
- Chinese
- 诊所 zhěnsuǒ
- Japanese
- クリニック kurinikku
20 more languages
- Dutch
- kliniek
- Polish
- przychodnia
- Swedish
- klinik
- Greek
- κλινική klinikí
- Korean
- 의원 uiwon
- Indonesian
- klinik
- Vietnamese
- phòng khám
- Hungarian
- klinika
- Portuguese (PT)
- clínica
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 醫院 yīyuàn
- Catalan
- clínica
- Danish
- klinik
- Esperanto
- kliniko
- Finnish
- klinikka
- Georgian
- კლინიკა ḳliniḳa
- Hebrew
- מִרְפָּאָה mirpa'á
- Norwegian
- klinikk
- Romanian
- clinică
- Serbo-Croatian
- klinika
- Swahili
- kliniki
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: See Clinical.
1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
2. Church One who receives baptism on a sick bed. obsolete Hook, Walter Farquhar
3. Medicine a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.
4. Medicine 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.
5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.
6. sports a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. fig.
Origin: Gr. κλινικός, fr. κλίνη bed, fr. κλίνειν to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, intransitive verb
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 Medicine, a discourse upon medical topics illustrated 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors