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Clinic vs Clonic - What's the difference?

clinic | clonic |

As a noun clinic

is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

As an adjective clonic is

pertaining to clonus; having irregular, convulsive spasms.

clinic

English

(wikipedia clinic)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (Hook)
  • (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)

    Derived terms

    * abortion clinic * clinical * clinically * clinician * dental clinic

    clonic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to clonus; having irregular, convulsive spasms.
  • :* 1973': Hospital attendants stand by to drag the children off, drooling, screaming, having '''clonic convulsions. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Gravity's Rainbow
  • Antonyms

    * tonic