different between clinic vs clonic
clinic
English
Alternative forms
- clinique (archaic)
Etymology
From French clinique, from Late Latin cl?nicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kl?nikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from ?????? (kl??n?, “bed”), from ?????? (kl??n?, “to lean, incline”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?n'?k, IPA(key): /?kl?n?k/
- Rhymes: -?n?k
Noun
clinic (plural clinics)
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
- (medicine, obsolete) 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.
- A group practice of several physicians.
- 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.
- (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
- (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
Derived terms
Related terms
- clinal
- cline
Translations
Further reading
- clinic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- clinic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- clinic at OneLook Dictionary Search
Interlingua
Adjective
clinic (not comparable)
- clinical
Related terms
- clinica
Romanian
Etymology
From French clinique.
Adjective
clinic m or n (feminine singular clinic?, masculine plural clinici, feminine and neuter plural clinice)
- clinical
Declension
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clonic
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?n?k/
Etymology
clonus +? -ic
Adjective
clonic (comparative more clonic, superlative most clonic)
- Pertaining to clonus; having irregular, convulsive spasms.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- Hospital attendants stand by to drag the children off, drooling, screaming, having clonic convulsions.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Antonyms
- tonic
Translations
Anagrams
- Concil.
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