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Clinic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

CLINIC ,

Clinic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a general sense, pertaining to a bed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bed-side of the sick, or from notes taken at the bed-side, by a physician, with a view to practical instruction in the healing art. Clinical medicine is the practice of medicine on patients in bed, or in hospitals. A clinical convert is a convert on his death-bed. Anciently persons receiving baptism on their death-beds were called clinics.

Clinic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One confined to the bed by sickness.

Clinic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One confined to the bed by sickness.

2. One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

3. 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.

Clinic [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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

Clinical [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Clinic

Clinically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a clinical manner; by the bed-side.

Clinically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a clinical manner.