Clinic /(?)/

Clin·ic

Clinic

n.
  1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
  2. One who receives baptism on a sick bed. (Eccl.) [Obs.]
  3. a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients. (Med.)
  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. 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. a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. (sports) [fig.]