Clinic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈklɪnɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪnɪk

Alternative forms

• clinique archaic

Origin

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

Full definition of clinic

Noun

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.
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.

Derived terms

• abortion clinic
• clinical
• clinically
• clinician
• dental clinic

Related terms

• clinal
• cline