clinic

Definitions

1. 1.(Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.
2. 2.(Med.) 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.
3. 3.Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
4. 4.Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. -- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is one who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed called?