clinic
Pronunciation: /ˈklɪnɪk/
noun
- 1a place or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, especially of a specialist nature: an antenatal clinic
- chiefly British an occasion or time when medical treatment or advice is given: we’re now holding regular clinics
- a gathering at a hospital bedside for the teaching of medicine or surgery.
Origin:
mid 19th century (in the sense 'teaching of medicine at the bedside'): from French clinique, from Greek klinikē (tekhnē) 'bedside (art)', from klinē 'bed'