Definitions for clinic

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clinic clin·ic

Spelling: [klin-ik]

IPA: /ˈklɪn ɪk/

Clinic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in clinic (cciiln).

Definitions for clinic

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:
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.

Origin of clinic

1620-30; 1885-90 for def 1; Latin clīnicus Greek klīnikós pertaining to a (sick) bed, equivalent to klī́n(ē) bed + -ikos -ic

Examples for clinic

He was in charge of the clinic—taking out the Grammar and putting in Gags.

Tests at the clinic proved what she suspected: she was pregnant.

"Better come down to the clinic," he said gently, assisting her from the couch.

Eight of the women were able to leave the clinic on the tenth day.

The clinic was interrupted by the crisp voice of Nora: "Dinner is served!"

He brought her to the clinic and left her with the doctor after explaining what had happened.

As reparation, the court ordered $563 to be paid out to Yang and required the clinic to post an apology on its website.

But Bethany Bultman, the clinic's founder and director, is committed to ensuring patients stay alive.

Nurses at the clinic say the facility cannot run a 24-hour shift due to fear of Ebola.

The clinic also provides routine checkups for pregnant woman, but it has limited capacity.