clinic

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A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
(broadly) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
(obsolete) 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.
(obsolete) A bed-ridden person
(obsolete) Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklɪnɪk/

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”).