clinics

nounmedical center

Synonyms for clinics

noun medical center

Word Origin & History

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.)).

Originally 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.

Example Sentences forclinics

I know I can go through the whole, clinics, dissecting room and all.

There had been a clinics instructor in Year Six who was a sensitive.

The assertion about the fifty-two clinics in Holland was investigated.

That is why I am here, observing in the clinics of Paris, you see.

At other clinics, gowns or aprons, with or without sleeves, were worn.

Clinics are open three forenoons a week and are crowded to capacity.

Clinics and lectures had begun again, but he had no heart for work.

I ought to have been a professor of clinics instead of an automobile agent.

It happened that the deputy came to one of the clinics where he met Therese.

Come to some of my clinics, and let me introduce you to other social types.