Clinic vs Sanatorium - What's the difference?
clinic | sanatorium |
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)
an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
As nouns the difference between clinic and sanatorium
is that clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients while sanatorium is an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.clinic
English
(wikipedia clinic)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- (Hook)
