clinic

英 ['kl?n?k] 美['kl?n?k]

英英釋義考試真題實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句

近義詞hospital dispensary infirmary outpatient medical polyclinic center ward

n. 臨床；診所

CET4TEM4考研CET6IELTSTOEFL中頻詞常用詞匯

詞態(tài)變化

復(fù)數(shù):?clinics;

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1. 克里+尼克松請(qǐng)出來(lái)，開(kāi)一個(gè)診所.

中文詞源

clinic 診所

來(lái)自PIE*klei,傾斜，詞源同lean,incline.原義為躺下，病床，醫(yī)生上門(mén)給病人看病的病床。

英文詞源

clinic: clinic: [17] Etymologically, a clinic is a place with ‘beds’. It comes ultimately from Greek klínē ‘bed’, which goes back to the Indo-European base *kli- ‘lean, slope’ (source also of English lean) and hence was originally ‘something on which one reclines’. The adjective derived from this, klīnkós, reached English via Latin clīnicus, having become specialized in meaning from ‘bed’ in general to ‘sick-bed’. Clinic was replaced as an adjective by clinical in the 18th century, but it continued on as a noun, originally in the sense ‘sick or bedridden person’.

This survived into the 19th century (‘You are free to roam at large over the bodies of my clinics’, E Berdoe, St Bernard’s 1887), and the modern sense ‘hospital’ did not arrive until the late 19th century, borrowed from French clinique or German klinik.
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clinic (n.): 1620s, from French clinique (17c.), from Latin clinicus "physician that visits patients in their beds," from Greek klinike (techne) "(practice) at the sickbed," from klinikos "of the bed," from kline "bed, couch, that on which one lies," from suffixed form of PIE root *kli- "lean, slope" (see lean (v.)).

Originally in English "bedridden person;" sense of "hospital" is 1884, from German Klinik in this sense, itself from French clinique, via the notion of "bedside medical education." The modern sense is thus reversed from the classical, when the "clinic" came to the patient. General sense of "conference for group instruction in something" is from 1919.