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

The team has already secured a patent for the developed drug leads and is now actively seeking investors and industrial partners to advance the drug leads towards the clinic.

From Science Daily

For the medics at Lwrio, it is heartening that people are now tending to come to the clinic as soon as they get symptoms rather than first going to traditional healers.

From BBC

That was one of the issues which the trust was dealing with through "mega clinic" sessions, aimed at ensuring patients were dealt with in a quicker way, he said.

From BBC

The technology, published on Nov. 20 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, has the potential to improve the quality of cardiovascular health monitoring in the clinic and at home.

From Science Daily

Methadone, one of the most effective medications for opioid addiction, can only be accessed through special clinics due to federal regulations borne out of President Richard Nixon’s War on Drugs.

From Salon

Related Words

• hospital