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Polyclinic

Polyclinic \Pol`y*clin"ic\, n. [Poly- + clinic.] (Med.) A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
polyclinic

"place for treatment of various diseases," 1890, from poly- "many" + clinic.

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polyclinic

n. A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease.

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Polyclinic

A polyclinic is a clinic that provides both general and specialist examinations and treatments to outpatients and is usually independent of a hospital. Polyclinics include:

  • Polyclinics in England, large health care centres able to provide a wider range of services than a standard doctor's (GP) office
  • The Polyclinic, in Seattle, Washington, US

Usage examples of "polyclinic".

Transferred to Westvale Polyclinic District 30 February 2011 for therapy.

Fifties, and in fact I afterward hear that three guys are taken to the Polyclinic suffering with broken ankles and several bruises from hopping out of windows in the hotels we pass in the chase, or from falling off of fire escapes.

University Hospital, the Surgical Polyclinic, and the Sainte-Barbara Center.

He took Sprague to the Polyclinic Hospital, saying the man obviously needed rest, if nothing else.

Reschke parks the car and the two of them discuss the reversibility of historical facts, I have to survey in retrospect the United Cemeteries, leveled by government decree, giving their acreage: An area circumscribed on the one hand by the Polyclinic and the Engineering School and on the other by St.

Cemetery Association the question came up of putting a fence between the parkland now known as the Cemetery of Reconciliation and the Engineering School and Polyclinic, but it was tabled as not urgent.

In the polyclinic of Schnitzer in Vienna in 1892 Hajek observed in a lad of twelve an accessory tongue 2.