clinic

The word clinic derives from Ancient Greek κλίνειν klinein meaning to slope, lean or recline. Hence κλίνη klinē is a couch or bed and κλινικός klinikos is a physician who visits his patients in their beds. In Latin, this became clīnicus. An early use of the word clinic was "one who receives baptism on a sick bed".

If you incline your head, you bend your neck so that your head is leaning forward.

A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory [可移动的; 流动的] care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They typically cover the primary care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer more specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.

ambulance: 救护车 [Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: 'place near a battle where wounds are treated', from ambulant 'walking', from Latin ambulare; AMBLE]

An inpatient is someone who stays in a hospital while they receive treatment.

Most commonly, the English word clinic refers to a general practice, run by one or more general practitioners offering small therapeutic treatments, but it can also mean a specialist clinic. Some clinics retain the name "clinic" even while growing into institutions as large as major hospitals or becoming associated with a hospital or medical school.

Clinics are often associated with a general medical practice run by one or several general practitioners. Other types of clinics are run by the type of specialist associated with that type: physical therapy clinics by physiotherapists [理疗医生; 物理治疗师] and psychology clinics by clinical psychologists [心理医生/学家], and so on for each health profession. (This can even hold true for certain services outside the medical field: for example, legal clinics are run by lawyers.)

Some clinics are operated in-house by employers, government organizations, or hospitals, and some clinical services are outsourced to private corporations which specialize in providing health services.

Treatment at some clinics is often less expensive than it would be at a casualty department/ward [急诊室]. Also, unlike an ER [emergency room, 急诊室] these clinics are often not open on a 24/7/365 basis. They sometimes have access to diagnostic equipment such as X-ray machines, especially if the clinic is part of a larger facility. Doctors at such clinics can often refer patients to specialists if the need arises.

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