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clin·ic [ klin-ik ]
Definitions related to clinic:
  • A health care facility where patients are admitted to get treatment provided by a group of physicians practicing medicine together.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A health care facility where subjects or patients may receive assessments, procedures, or treatments that are provided by physicians and other healthcare providers.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Clinic, an organized medical service offering diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive outpatient services. Often, the term covers an entire medical teaching centre, including the hospital and the outpatient facilities. The medical care offered by a clinic may or may not be connected with a hospital....
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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