单词 | clinic |
释义 | clinicn.1adj.1 A. n.1 1. One who is confined to bed by sickness or infirmity; a bedridden person, an indoor hospital patient. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > confined to bed bedlawerman1419 bedridden1429 bedlarc1440 bedwoman1568 bedrela1572 clinica1626 decumbent1641 discumbent1766 cot-case1897 a1626 W. Vaughan Nat. & Artific. Direct. Health (1633) 5 The childish doubts of cowardly Clinickes. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini 10 Confession of sins by the clinick or sick person. a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. v. 123 Clinicks from gracious God find sure Relief. 1887 E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 213 You are free to roam at large..over the bodies of my clinics. 2. Church History. One who deferred baptism until the death-bed, in the belief that there could be no atonement for sins committed after that sacrament. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > private, for sick person > [noun] > person deferring until death-bed clinic1666 1666 W. Sancroft Lex Ignea 41 We are all Clinicks in this point; would fain have a Baptism in Reserve, a wash for all our sins, when we cannot possibly commit any more. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Clinics,..signified those who received baptism on their death-beds. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Clinic is now seldom us'd but for a Quack; or for an empyrical Nurse, who pretends to have learnt the Art of curing Diseases by attending on the Sick. B. adj.1 1. Of or pertaining to the sickbed; bedridden. clinic baptism: private baptism administered on the couch to sick or dying persons. clinic convert: one converted when sick or dying. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > restrained by ill health bedridc1000 bedridden1340 bedlarc1440 bedrel1513 bed-sickc1550 clinica1631 bedfasta1639 non-surrective1668 decumbent1689 invalided1837 laid1868 to lay aside1879 wheelchaired1938 on the sick1976 society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > private, for sick person > [noun] clinic baptisma1631 society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > private, for sick person > [adjective] clinica1631 clinical1844 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 214 Be therefore S. Cyprians Peripatetique, and not his Clinique Christian; A walking, and not a bed-rid Christian. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. x. 294 Clinic baptism accounted less perfect. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) ii. v. 236 The Clinick or Death-bed repentance. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 164 Aspersion was allowed of old in clinic baptism. 2. = clinical adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical training > [adjective] > parts of training clinic1719 clinical1780 premedical1893 preclinical1907 preregistration1916 pre-med1918 1719 W. Wagstaffe Let. A. Tripe (new ed.) 18 A Weeks Preparation of Clinic Medicine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clinicn.2 1. (See quot. 1882.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical training > [noun] clinic1843 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. i. 9. 1858 R. Christison in Life II. 273. 1869 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. II. 3 The clinic is the copestone of medical study. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Clinic, the teaching of medicine or surgery at the bedside of a sick person, or the class accompanying the teacher. 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. 3. transferred. An institution, class, conference, etc., for instruction in or the study of a particular subject; a seminar. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > seminar workshop1912 clinic1919 seminar1944 teach-in1965 ovular1986 1919 British Manufacturer Nov. 30/2 In order to solve this difficult problem in economic diagnosis, we need a clinic just as the doctor does. 1948 N.Y. Herald Tribune 10 June 33/7 Creation of a management–labor ‘Joint Productivity Clinic’, aimed at increasing industrial output. 1951 College Eng. Jan. 232 A ‘composition clinic’ has been set up by the college of liberal arts department of English of Wayne University... Once the student is enrolled there, his writing is diagnosed and he is given whatever treatment he needs. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 38/2 Five regional clinics for football coaches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). clinicadj.2 Mineralogy. rare. Oblique. ΚΠ 1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) 204 Syenite would differ from diorite in the form of the feldspar which in the former is orthic (orthoclase) and in the latter clinic (plagioclase). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1adj.1a1626n.21843adj.21879 |
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