clinicとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French clinique, from Late Latin clinicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klinikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλίνη (klínē, “bed”), from κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).

発音

• enPR: klĭn'ĭk, IPA^(key): /ˈklɪnɪk/
• 韻: -ɪnɪk

名詞

clinic (複数形 clinics)

A clinic for students in an American high school

1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. (medicine, obsolete) 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.
4. A group practice of several physicians.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
9. (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.

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派生語

関連する語

• clinal
• cline

派生語

• aclinic
• diclinic
• isoclinic
• monoclinic
• triclinic