clinic
Meanings
Plural: clinics
Noun
- a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
- meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity
- a healthcare facility for outpatient care
- 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 class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
- A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
- 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.
- A bed-ridden person
- Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).
Scrabble Score: 10
clinic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordclinic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clinic is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
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