Clinic vs Clonic - What's the difference?
clinic | clonic |
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)
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
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)- (Hook)