Clinic

Noun

 * 1) A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
 * 2) A group practice of several physicians.
 * 3) A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
 * 4) A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.

Adjectives for Clinic
public; impersonal; domestic; courtesy; private; convenient; indispensable.

Verbs for Clinic
admit to —; attach to —; attend —; con¬duct —; contribute to —; endow —; establish —; extol —; install —; institute —; maintain —; practise in —; subsidize —; support —; visit —; — adjusts; — administers; — advises; — cures; — diagnoses; — discovers; — investigates; — observes; — records; — specializes; — surveys; — tabulates; — treats.

Derived terms

 * clinical
 * clinically
 * clinician

Related terms

 * clinal
 * cline

Thesaurus
community hospital, consultation room, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, delivery room, dispensary, emergency, evacuation hospital, examining room, fever ward, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, hospital room, infirmary, inpatient clinic, intensive care, isolation, labor room, laboratory, maison de sante, maternity ward, mental hospital, nursery, nursing home, operating room, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, pharmacy, policlinic, polyclinic, prison ward, private hospital, private room, proprietary hospital, public hospital, recovery room, rest home, sanatorium, semi-private room, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgery, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, therapy, treatment room, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic

Etymology
From clinique: <  clinicus: <  κλινικός: < κλίνη: < κλίνειν:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 診所, 诊所
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish: klinikka, terveyskeskus
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: מרפאה (mirpaa) (1)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 医院
 * Persian:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: clínica
 * Swahili: