Other forms: clinics
A clinic is a small medical centre for visits that need no hospital stay. A walk-in clinic, an eye clinic, run a clinic.
It is defined by the absence of beds — outpatient care, which covers most of medicine. A clinic is also a teaching session at a bedside, and by extension any short intensive coaching session, which is why a golf clinic is a thing. Note that the Greek means pertaining to a bed, which is the opposite of what a clinic now is.
1nounclinicA small medical centre for visits without a stay.
“The clinic in town offers free check-ups for babies on Monday mornings.”
2nounshortA short intensive teaching session.
“The famous golfer ran a free clinic for young players at the club.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
clinic is a medical centre.
French clinique comes from Greek klinikos, of a bed, from kline, a bed. Recline and incline come from the same leaning.
French
clinique
English, today
clinic
Built from
Borrowed from French clinique. French clinique, from Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (“pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (“bed”), from κλῑ́νω (“to lean, incline”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA