clinic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
  2. noun meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity
  3. noun a healthcare facility for outpatient care

WordNet

Clin"ic noun
Etymology
See Clinical.
Definitions
  1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
  2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. Obs. Hook.
  3. (Med.) 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.

Webster 1913