clinic

[ klin-ik ]

noun

1. a place, as in connection with a medical school or a hospital, for the treatment of nonresident patients, sometimes at low cost or without charge.
2. a group of physicians, dentists, or the like, working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
3. a class or group convening for instruction or remedial work or for the diagnosis and treatment of specific problems:

   a reading clinic; a speech clinic; a summer baseball clinic for promising young players.

4. the instruction of medical students by examining or treating patients in their presence or by their examining or treating patients under supervision.
5. a class of students assembled for such instruction.
6. Sports Slang. a performance so thoroughly superior by a team or player as to be a virtual model or demonstration of excellence; rout or mismatch.

adjective

1. of a clinic; clinical.

clinic

/ ˈklɪnɪk /

noun

1. a place in which outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, often connected to a hospital
2. a similar place staffed by physicians or surgeons specializing in one or more specific areas

   eye clinic

3. a private hospital or nursing home
4. obsolete.
   the teaching of medicine to students at the bedside
5. a place in which medical lectures are given
6. a clinical lecture
7. a group or centre that offers advice or instruction

   a vocational clinic

Word History and Origins

Origin of clinic¹

1620–30; 1885–90 clinic fordef 1; < Latin clīnicus < Greek klīnikós pertaining to a (sick) bed, equivalent to klī́n ( ē ) bed + -ikos -ic

Word History and Origins

Origin of clinic¹

C17: from Latin clīnicus one on a sickbed, from Greek, from klinē bed

Example Sentences

More than 500 workers turned up at the KIWA’s event, several hundred more than initially expected as word of the government program and the registration clinic spread by word of mouth.

From Los Angeles Times

He said he reached out to Zipline, which uses drones to fly health products to hard-to-reach clinics, after his father died from a loss of blood.

From BBC

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee’s clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there’s not a single clinic that provides abortions.

From Salon

The clinic visit rate ratio increased as daily concentrations increased.

From Science Daily

Like any drug, ketamine also carries risks, and some are concerned that the proliferation of clinics providing this treatment has outpaced what regulatory systems can support.

From Salon

Related Words

• hospital