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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

/ 藞办濒瑟苍瑟办 /

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

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of clinic1

1620鈥30; 1885鈥90 clinic fordef 1; < Latin 肠濒墨苍颈肠耻蝉 < Greek 办濒墨苍颈办贸蝉 pertaining to a (sick) bed, equivalent to 办濒墨虂苍 ( ) bed + -ikos -ic
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of clinic1

C17: from Latin 肠濒墨苍颈肠耻蝉 one on a sickbed, from Greek, from klin脓 bed
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As a result, libraries, nonurgent health clinics and parks are closed.

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Libraries and some healthcare clinics will be closed, though hospitals will remain open.

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Lee worked part of her residency at a community clinic serving Hmong in the Sacramento area.

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But the core of the crisis and key to this election is GP services, or primary care, largely offered by private clinics.

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Soni, a Harvard-trained primary care doctor who sees patients one day a week at an urgent care clinic in Los Angeles County鈥檚 public safety net health system, is familiar with the challenges those communities face.

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