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Clinic : (noun)
1: a medical establishment run by a group of medical
specialists
2: meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or
remedial work in a particular activity
3: a healthcare facility for outpatient care
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Clinic : \Clin"ic\, n. [See Clinical.]
1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.]
--Hook.
3. (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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Clinical \Clin"ic*al\,Clinic : \Clin"ic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? bed,
fr. ? to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease
in the living subject.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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