Clinic

Clinic
Clinic Clin"ic, n. [See {Clinical}.] 1. One confined to the bed by sickness. [1913 Webster]

2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] --Hook. [1913 Webster]

3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients. [PJC]

4. (Med.) 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. [1913 Webster]

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. [PJC]

6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [fig.] [PJC]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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