1. A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the diagnosis and care of outpatients.
2. A medical establishment run by several specialists working in cooperation and sharing the same facilities.
3. A group session offering counsel or instruction in a particular field or activity: a vocational clinic; a tennis clinic.
4. 1. A seminar or meeting of physicians and medical students in which medical instruction is conducted in the presence of the patient, as at the bedside.
   2. A place where such instruction occurs.
   3. A class or lecture of medical instruction conducted in this manner.

[French clinique, from Greek klīnikē (tekhnē), clinical (method), feminine of klīnikos, from klīnē, couch, bed. See clinandrium.]

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