clinic

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō) Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek κλῑ́νη (klī́nē) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)bor. Late Latin clīnicus French cliniquebor. English clinic 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”).

1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
4. A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.

   “A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.”

   “We'll also be offering music clinics, lessons, and new product demonstrations throughout the year.”

6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. A bed-ridden person
9. Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.

   “We are all Clinicks in this point”

   “The conclusion is inevitable , that pouring or sprinkling was regarded, in the primitive church, as valid baptism; and of course that immersion was not considered essential. It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood. But why were they prohibited? Not because of the informality of their batism; but because their sincerity had not been sufficiently tested.”