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Entry 6 senses Webster, 1913

Clinic

/klĭn'ĭk/ · Clin·ic · IPA /ˈklɪn.ɪk/
01 n. One confined to the bed by sickness.
  1. 1.
    One confined to the bed by sickness.
  2. 2.
    One who receives baptism on a sick bed.(Eccl.) [Obs.]
  3. 3.
    a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.(Med.)
  4. 4.
    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.(Med.)
  5. 5.
    a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.
  6. 6.
    a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation.(sports) [fig.]