clinic

1. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.broadly

2. (medicine, obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.obsolete

3. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.

4. (obsolete) A bed-ridden personobsolete

5. (obsolete) Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.Examples: "We are all Clinicks in this point"; "The conclusion is inevitable , that pouring or sprinkling was regarded, in the primitive church, as valid baptism; and of course that immersion was not considered essential. It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood. But why were they prohibited? Not because of the informality of their batism; but because their sincerity had not been sufficiently tested."; "Clinic baptism is all that is contemplated by them, and even in this case a clinic was, unless in unusual cases, debarred from orders."obsolete