clinic

Meaning

Noun

• A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
• A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
• 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.
• A group practice of several physicians.
• A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
• A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
• A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
• One confined to bed by sickness.
• One who receives baptism on a sickbed.

Origin

• From French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus ("a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician"), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός ("pertaining to a bed"), from κλῑ́νη, from κλῑ́νω.