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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clinic
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
antenatal clinic
▪ an antenatal clinic
well-woman clinic
▪ a well-woman clinic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antenatal
▪ Subsequent to this investigation we assessed 2907 urine samples from women attending the antenatal clinics in Dundee between November 1990 and September 1992.
▪ I was at the antenatal clinic.
▪ She had gone to St Ebba's antenatal clinic and they had kept her there.
▪ But you can ask the staff at the antenatal clinic for the results of your Rubella blood test.
▪ There will be some one on the staff at your antenatal clinic who can explain what benefits you can claim.
diabetic
▪ A most useful exercise in the diabetic clinic is inspection of injection sites.
▪ The major part of teaching, motivating and assessing what has been learned should take place outside the diabetic clinic.
▪ This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic.
▪ It is complementary to the diabetic clinic and is quite at home dealing with children or pregnant diabetics.
▪ In the control group all occurred in hospital diabetic clinics whereas for the prompted group 67% occurred in general practice.
▪ A new patient attends the diabetic clinic and is informed that he has diabetes.
▪ Setting - Diabetic clinic in a tertiary referral centre.
▪ Some patients regard diabetic clinic days as holy days and fast for them!
local
▪ How to find your local clinic.
▪ Like clockwork, she goes to the local health clinic every third month for three new cycles of free birth control pills.
▪ I did make an appointment at the local family planning clinic.
▪ There was no point asking why they did not use the local veterinary clinics.
▪ How do I find my local clinic?
▪ I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair.
▪ The local clinic has treated several cases of heroin withdrawal, a problem not seen here before 1997.
▪ If you would like advice on contraception, talk to your doctor or local family planning clinic.
medical
▪ She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings.
▪ Only a few of the jails have medical clinics.
▪ The high occurrence of this condition in medical clinics has been confirmed.
▪ It also provides a network of schools, medical clinics and other social programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
▪ Wright found the condition in 1% of new patients in general medical clinics and in 5% of new patients attending gastroenterology clinics.
▪ Once in the terminal, consider seeking help at the in-house first-aid or medical clinic.
▪ The remaining 73 patients were enrolled in the pulmonary or medical clinics and had a previous diagnosis of asthma.
▪ Reynaldo tried to escape into the medical clinic and was shot in the leg.
mobile
▪ The hearing continues today. Mobile clinic cuts toll of Aids.
▪ QueensCare February will mark the launch of QueensCare's new pediatric mobile dental clinic.
▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
▪ One complemented the other, and in September 1957, the first mobile leprosy clinic was launched by Archbishop Perier.
▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
private
▪ Yesterday's newspapers contained the usual number of advertisements for abortions in private clinics.
▪ I remembered how I had nearly died that night when Shoshana had sent us to the private clinic to guard a corpse.
▪ But that we are being held in protective custody in a special private clinic.
▪ After a night in hospital he was transferred to a private clinic and is expected to make a complete recovery.
▪ Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights' in-patient care average £2,400, a financial impossibility without insurance.
▪ She was admitted to an exclusive private clinic in a neighbouring village.
▪ He'd spent six weeks as a voluntary patient at a private mental clinic.
psychiatric
▪ Children brought up in community homes are also over represented among psychiatric clinic attenders.
▪ Impotence has for some time been the leading complaint at most college psychiatric clinics.
▪ The monastery of Konigsfelden today houses a psychiatric clinic.
▪ The unnamed man, from Baden-Baden, about 40 miles from Stuttgart, was taken to a psychiatric clinic.
▪ Such patients are uncommon in general practice; they are more likely to be seen in psychiatric outpatient clinics.
▪ Three years later the first psychiatric clinics were held at Sighthill.
▪ This might be based on a psychiatric clinic or a voluntary agency such as the Samaritans.
special
▪ You can be tested for infection at a special hospital clinic.
▪ Then Joe started taking her to special clinics, and she began having all her extra organs removed, just in case.
▪ But that we are being held in protective custody in a special private clinic.
▪ Selection Patients were assessed in a special gallstone clinic to determine their suitability for the various treatment techniques available in our unit.
▪ Doctors have held a special clinic in the village to talk to worried parents.
▪ But with the help of a special miscarriage clinic, her longed-for baby finally became a reality.
▪ When prescription charges were introduced, the special clinics were exempted, and treatment continues to be free.
▪ There are support classes or special clinics linked to examination subjects.
specialist
▪ Your local drug project may be able to put you in touch with an understanding dentist or specialist dental clinic.
▪ There are few specialist clinics and those that do exist can not cope with the demand.
▪ Extend needle and syringe exchange facilities and local health care services and set up a specialist drug clinic.
▪ It is estimated that only 20 percent of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in the specialist clinics.
▪ This paper is concerned with the effects of the reforms on general practitioners' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics.
■ NOUN
abortion
▪ The growth of non-profit-making abortion clinics since the act has meant that abortion is widely available.
▪ The ruling was not a total defeat for the abortion clinics.
▪ Under the terms of the legislation an abortion clinic was also required to inform a patient about the possible alternatives to abortion.
▪ Keeping abortion clinics open was one such issue.
▪ In the coming abortion clinic battles, these would prove invaluable to her and to me.
▪ The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.
▪ It was not widely known that there was a abortion clinic in the neighborhood.
▪ Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics.
fertility
▪ Researchers at fertility clinics say that they are already besieged by requests to clone.
▪ He intends to invite some of these couples and top fertility clinic experts to appear before his panel.
▪ Therefore, technically somebody had stolen a fertility clinic.
▪ However, stem cells are generally taken from embryos created and routinely discarded all the time in fertility clinics.
▪ Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant.
▪ Most of the country's fertility clinics were listed, although none of the catalogues was up to date.
▪ The picture was taken at a fertility clinic and was used to illustrate the Princess's caring nature.
▪ Although fertility clinics must have independent, trained counsellors available by law, clients are not compelled to attend counselling.
health
▪ It has been associated with the presence of cervical human papillomavirus in patients at student health clinics.
▪ Now a visit to the public health clinic was in order.
▪ They established health clinics in some villages, dug wells in others and send their doctors and nurses into the countryside.
▪ Most public health clinics offer completely anonymous testing.
▪ Like clockwork, she goes to the local health clinic every third month for three new cycles of free birth control pills.
▪ Consider, for example, two mural paintings in the round temple at Epidaurus, once an internationally famed health clinic.
▪ Some representatives from health clinics argued that the proposal would cause more harm than good.
▪ But Garcia Abrego is believed to have been behind the 1984 killing of six people in a health clinic in Matamoros.
hospital
▪ You can be tested for infection at a special hospital clinic.
▪ Any prompted patient referred to a hospital clinic is assessed in the context of the scheme.
▪ A randomised controlled trial comparing prompted care with continuing hospital clinic care was undertaken.
▪ Effective community care must provide a mechanism which allows easy and appropriate referral to and from hospital clinics.
▪ Patients attending hospital clinics had worse glycaemic control, but this seemed to be attributable to the case mix and practice characteristics.
medicine
▪ Results - New cases of gonorrhoea among men attending genitourinary medicine clinics increased by 7.7% in 1989 and by 4.2% in 1990.
▪ In 1990 increases in rectal gonorrhoea in men were noted in several genitourinary medicine clinics in London and elsewhere in Britain.
outpatient
▪ An obvious candidate for inclusion in these tables is the delay between referral and first appointment in outpatient clinics.
▪ It is these patients who present themselves to the outpatient clinic.
▪ Instead of the 170-bed hospital at Travis, they proposed building a $ 27 million outpatient clinic, a project Riggs defended.
▪ Plans for the outpatient clinic have been scrapped.
▪ Eleven patients were recruited from our outpatient clinic and informed consent was obtained.
▪ The plan would set up a new payment system for services to Medicare patients who see their doctors at hospital outpatient clinics.
patient
▪ I had to leave eight clinic patients to come here, and now I have to go to Claremount with him.
▪ The thief tugged his clothes like a doctor with a clinic patient.
▪ Results - Cancer mortality was not significantly different in clinic patients as a whole and controls.
▪ No clinic patient received any examination or laboratory test specific for erectile dysfunction or its causes.
▪ The medical records of the clinic patients had no indication of any adverse effects or death related to sildenafil usage.
▪ Thus, most clinic patients are members of the lower socioeconomic group.
▪ Results Analysis in 1983 had shown no excess of cancer deaths in Glasgow clinic patients compared with Renfrew-Paisley controls.
planning
▪ Anyone, married or single, male or female, young or not-so-young can go to a family planning clinic.
▪ Cartwright found that the lower socio-economic groups made less use of such local health services as ante-natal clinics or family planning clinics.
▪ Did you tell me where the family planning clinics were, what they do, what age you can get the Pill?
▪ I know now that you can get Durex free from family planning clinics, but not many people know that.
▪ I did make an appointment at the local family planning clinic.
▪ But then how many fellas will go into a family planning clinic?
▪ Some family planning clinics will also arrange for you to be given a blood test.
▪ So, make an appointment at your family planning clinic or go and talk to your college doctor.
■ VERB
attend
▪ She did in fact attend clinic eventually, and this allowed a full discussion of the situation.
▪ Most think anyone who wants to buy a gun should have to attend a clinic on proper use.
▪ Subsequent to this investigation we assessed 2907 urine samples from women attending the antenatal clinics in Dundee between November 1990 and September 1992.
▪ Results - New cases of gonorrhoea among men attending genitourinary medicine clinics increased by 7.7% in 1989 and by 4.2% in 1990.
▪ Of 225 new patients attending our adolescent gynaecology clinic in 1992, 167 presented with menstrual disturbances.
▪ She subsequently attended the genetic counselling clinic, and was very anxious about the situation.
▪ Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.
build
▪ The money will go towards the new unit that is to be built at the clinic.
hold
▪ His constant travelling to outlying villages to hold clinics was only mildly odd.
▪ And he plans to hold Belfast clinics on a bi-weekly basis.
▪ Doctors have held a special clinic in the village to talk to worried parents.
▪ Trevor Barrett-Boyce was also holding a clinic and there was a good sprinkling of small children.
open
▪ By 1909, he had opened a small clinic with the help of volunteers from a nearby Bible school.
▪ Later that year she opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn.
plan
▪ And he plans to hold Belfast clinics on a bi-weekly basis.
▪ In Los Angeles our supporters outnumbered Operation Rescue demonstrators three to one and kept a planned clinic blockade from even getting started.
▪ To get a free pregnancy test with Immediate results go to a family planning clinic or a Brook Centre.
▪ He also argued family planning clinics should not be bound by a gag order preventing them from counseling patients on abortion.
▪ When Nana turned 16 Awa took her to the family planning clinic.
referred
▪ Any prompted patient referred to a hospital clinic is assessed in the context of the scheme.
▪ Subjects- Patients referred to consultant outpatient clinics.
▪ Five were referred to the pain clinic but without relief of symptoms.
▪ There was no significant difference in the number of patients referred to hospital eye clinics.
run
▪ He'd been running the clinic at a substantial profit for nearly ten years.
▪ Some projects also run Well Person's clinics where you can see a doctor for a health check and Family Planning services.
▪ Not some earnest, eager and ignorant lady running a slimming clinic in Slough.
▪ Our unit has run a menorrhagia clinic for 5 years and last year we introduced these charts for all our patients.
▪ Many practices have applied to run health promotion clinics for managing stress, which are thinly disguised counselling sessions.
set
▪ Communities set up clinics to deliver free gamma globulin shots to schoolchildren.
visit
▪ Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently.
▪ The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic.
▪ In general, users were treated on an out-patient basis, living at home in the community and visiting the clinic at intervals.
▪ Rakovsky had never visited the clinic.
▪ I don't dare to visit the methadone clinic tomorrow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mobile library/shop/clinic etc
▪ A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
▪ A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
▪ In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
walk-in business/clinic/centre etc
▪ The walk-in centre is the result of two years' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a dental clinic
▪ a marriage clinic
▪ Ellen decided to go to the family planning clinic for some advice.
▪ Glassman is one of several doctors who volunteer at the inner-city clinic.
▪ The Harvey Clinic specializes in the treatment of alcohol-related problems.
▪ They're giving a free clinic on how to care for roses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are there arrangements for surgeries or clinics out of working hours?
▪ For example, Monday clinics are prone to develop a backlog owing to bank holidays and statutory holidays.
▪ I remembered how I had nearly died that night when Shoshana had sent us to the private clinic to guard a corpse.
▪ It rapidly became evident that this clinic could not make even a dent in the problem.
▪ Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant.
▪ Medicare also would reduce co-payments for services received at hospitals and clinics on an outpatient basis.
▪ The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.
▪ The first approach concerned a stress management clinic advertising a consultant psychologist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clinic

Clinical \Clin"ic*al\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k*al), Clinic \Clin"ic\ (kl[i^]n"[i^]k), a. [Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

  2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

    Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.

    Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics.

    Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients.

    Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.

Clinic

Clinic \Clin"ic\, n. [See Clinical.]

  1. One confined to the bed by sickness.

  2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.]
    --Hook.

  3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.

  4. (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.

  5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.

  6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [fig.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clinic

1620s, from French clinique (17c.), from Latin clinicus "physician that visits patients in their beds," from Greek klinike (techne) "(practice) at the sickbed," from klinikos "of the bed," from kline "bed, couch, that on which one lies," from suffixed form of PIE root *kli- "lean, slope" (see lean (v.)).\n

\nOriginally in English "bedridden person;" sense of "hospital" is 1884, from German Klinik in this sense, itself from French clinique, via the notion of "bedside medical education." The modern sense is thus reversed from the classical, when the "clinic" came to the patient. General sense of "conference for group instruction in something" is from 1919.

Wiktionary
clinic

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

WordNet
clinic
  1. n. a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists

  2. meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity

  3. a healthcare facility for outpatient care

Wikipedia
Clinic

A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a healthcare facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They typically cover the primary healthcare needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.

Most commonly, the word clinic in English refers to a general medical practice, run by one or more general practitioners, but it can also mean a specialist clinic. Some clinics retain the name “clinic" even while growing into institutions as large as major hospitals or becoming associated with a hospital or medical school.

Clinic (band)

Clinic are an English rock band from Liverpool. They are noted for their prominent use of vintage keyboards/organs and off-scale chord progressions.

Clinic (album)

Clinic is a compilation album of the first three EPs by Clinic.

The EPs included are I.P.C. Subeditors Dictate Our Youth (1997) (tracks 1-3), Monkey on Your Back (1998) (tracks 4-6) and Cement Mixer (1998) (tracks 7-9).

Clinic (music)

A musical clinic is an informal meeting with a guest musician, where a small-to-medium-sized audience questions the musician's styles and techniques and also how to improve their own skill. The musician might perform an entire piece, or demonstrate certain techniques for the audience to observe.

The objective is for the audience to learn from the guest musician. A musical clinic can apply to any type of musical instrument, music or player. The clinics are often held at a musical instrument stores.

Clinic (disambiguation)

A clinic is a public health facility. The term may also refer to:

Usage examples of "clinic".

And then Jon mentioned that Web site that everyone was talking about when the doctor back East was shot, the Web site that lists doctors and clinic directors, their families and home addresses, all kinds of things nobody would want a nut to get ahold of.

About an hour after opening the clinic for the day, Amani, the mother of the only child among her patients, offered her services in a quiet voice.

Zinsa made a mental note to offer Amani a position when she reopened the clinic, knowing the woman had no other source of income.

By the time Amani had carried her to the clinic the next day, a serious infection had set in, requiring massive doses of IV antibiotics and constant care.

Steele are by that antiabortion group that goes around blowing up clinics.

Public Health Service would pass out an antimalarial preventive called mefloquine to every doctor, health clinic, hospital, and nurse practitioner in Maryland and Virginia.

TANU Government had done for the people after the Arusha Declaration: abolishing the poll tax, abolishing primary-school fees, building permanent, clean water supplies in the villages, expanding the number of health clinics and dispensaries in the rural areas, increasing primary-school facilities, etc.

Wingate people, she was constantly doing so with inappropriate comments about their supposed stem-cell therapy and even inappropriate questioning of the young, pregnant Bahamian women who worked at the clinic, which was an extremely sensitive issue with Paul Saunders.

Altering biometrics is not illegal here, and we have clinics that perform humodification at various levels from superficial surgery to gene altering.

Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.

Someone had overturned a boat in the lake in a particularly stupid way, and there was another case of bluetick fever who had walked into the clinic thinking he just had a headache.

At first, nearer the house, there were roses and bougainvillaea, poinsettia and banks of phlox, that formed bright bold slashes of colour, against a veld still brown from the long dry winter just passed, but nearer the stream the fields of maize were tended by convalescents from the mission clinic, and soon on the tall green plants the immature cobs would begin to set.

So we rode to Knoxville with our comical cabdriver, acquired a rental car at the airport, and found ourselves, shortly after midday, heading north out of Knoxville through a half-remembered world of busy roads, dangling traffic signals, vast intersections, huge signs, and acre upon acre of shopping malls, gas stations, discount stores, muffler clinics, car lots, and all the rest.

I think of the absurd crashes of neurasthenic housewives returning from their VD clinics, hitting parked cars in suburban high streets.

On the Saturday before she was due to go to the clinic, she made an excuse to go into Cheltenham and met West, who was then working as a tyre-fitter at Cotswold Tyres.