clinic English · revision 6364

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1626|origins=grc κλίνη}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈklɪn.ɪk/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|clinique]] and Latin [[m|la|clīnicus|t=physician who visits patients in bed]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) from [[grc|κλινική|tr=klinikḗ|t=practice at the sickbed]], from [[m|grc|κλινικός|tr=klinikós|t=of the bed]], from [[m|grc|κλίνη|tr=klínē|t=bed]], from [[m|grc|κλίνω|tr=klínō|t=to lean]] (see [[lean]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A bedridden person: before 1626, a sense now rare or obsolete.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In church history, one who put off baptism until his deathbed is from 1666,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and a clinical physician from 1751.^(OED 1989) The teaching of medicine at the bedside, from French clinique, is from the mid-19th century.^(NODE 1998)^(Cresswell 2021)^(SOED 2002) A place for medical treatment, especially of outpatients, is first recorded in 1884, via German Klinik;^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) Etymonline notes that the modern sense reverses the classical one, in which the clinic came to the patient.^(Etymonline) A session of instruction, as a golf clinic, is from 1919.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1626 – a bedridden person.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1666 – one who delays baptism.^(OED 1989)

+ * mid-19th century – bedside teaching.^(NODE 1998)

+ * 1884 – a place for treatment.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1919 – a session of instruction.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A place where [[outpatient|alt=outpatients]] receive medical treatment or advice.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A session at which doctors give advice on a particular condition: ''an antenatal clinic''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A session of instruction on a subject: ''a coaching clinic''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[monoclinic]]

+ * [[polyclinic]]

+ * [[triclinic]]

+ * [[clinical]]

+ * [[clinician]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cline]]

+ * [[lean]]

+ * [[incline]]

+ * [[recline]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}