单词 | child guidance clinic |
释义 | > as lemmaschild guidance clinic 2. [After French clinique, German klinik.] (a) A private hospital or medical institution to which patients are recommended by individual doctors; (b) (formerly) an institution attached to a hospital or medical school at which patients received treatment free of cost or at reduced fees; (now esp.) a hospital department devoted to a particular group of diseases, etc., usually with defining epithet, as diabetic clinic, fracture clinic, etc.; also, a centre or other institution at which specialized treatment, diagnosis, or advice is available, as child guidance clinic, dental clinic, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > clinic clinic1889 1889 Lancet 22 June 1283/2 Two new hospitals have just been opened in Moscow. One of these is a lying-in clinic attached to the University. 1892 Cosmopolitan Oct. 766/1 Clinics that are held by the professors of diseases of the eye. 1895 Daily News 18 June 6/2 The Council of State in St. Petersburg is busy with the project of a medical institute for women... After completing their studies the students will have to practice for one to three years in womens' clinics or similar hospitals. 1902 Lancet 25 Jan. 235/1 Dr. Mendes has put together a number of interesting observations which he has made in his clinic. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/1 The clinic opens at nine on every school-day and also on Saturday with examination of cases. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 875/1 The many specialized clinics—prenatal, ‘baby’, dental, venereal disease, psychiatric etc. 1951 ‘M. Innes’ Operation Pax 207 ‘What is a clinic?’.. ‘I think it's becoming a fashionable word for a grand sort of nursing home—the sort that has one special line.’ 1952 Oxf. Junior Encycl. X. 183/1 There has gradually grown up the practice of dealing with special types of patients in properly equipped clinics or centres; women during pregnancy, for example, are seen at ante-natal clinics, while small children and babies are examined at special children's clinics. 1961 A. S. MacNalty Brit. Med. Dict. 318/2 Patients who have been in hospital may attend clinics for after-treatment. < as lemmas |
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