clinic
Pronunciation Noun

clinic (plural clinics)

  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. (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.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
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