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clinic

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1. clinic - Noun

2. clinic - Verb

Meaning

One confined to the bed by sickness.

One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

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.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006. Doc Hastings

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. Mark Hyman, M.D.

I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it? Paul Newman

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. Dora Russell

I had a colonic irrigation in this clinic in Santa Monica, because people in Los Angeles cannot do anything for themselves, much less take a shit. Margaret Cho

If pauses can be pregnant, this one's on the run from a fertility clinic. Charles Stross

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