different between clinic vs practitioners

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)

1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. (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.
4. A group practice of several physicians.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
9. (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)

1. 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)

1. clinical

Declension

English

Noun

practitioners

1. plural of practitioner