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   Clinic (?), n. [See Clinical.]
   1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
   
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   2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.]  Hook.
   
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   3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.
   
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   4. (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.
   
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   5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.
   
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   6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [fig.]
   
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    Clinical (klĭnˈĭk‑al), Clinic (klĭnˈĭk) , a. [Gr. κλινικός, fr. κλίνη bed, fr. κλίνειν to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
   
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   2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
   
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   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 illustrated 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.
   
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