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From French clinique, from Late Latin clinicus (a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician), from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klinikós, pertaining to a bed), from κλίνη (klínē, bed), from κλίνειν (klínein, to lean, incline).



clinic (plural clinics)

A clinic for students in an American high school
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. A group practice of several physicians.
  3. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  4. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  5. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  6. (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
  7. (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hook to this entry?)
  8. (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.


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