Clinic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One confined to the bed by sickness.

II. Clinic ·noun One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

III. Clinic ·vi Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

IV. Clinic ·vi Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

V. Clinic ·noun 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.