Ambulance vs Clinic - What's the difference?
ambulance | clinic |
An emergency vehicle that transports sick or injured people to a hospital.
(military) A mobile field hospital.
A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
A group practice of several physicians.
A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
(wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
(obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
(obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
(medicine, obsolete) 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.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between ambulance and clinic
is that ambulance is an emergency vehicle that transports sick or injured people to a hospital while clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.ambulance
English
(wikipedia ambulance)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ambulanceman, ambulancewoman * heart ambulance * wambulance * air ambulance * ambulance chaserExternal links
* * ----clinic
English
(wikipedia clinic)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- (Hook)