clinic

Noun

A facility for medical treatment, teaching, or counseling.
a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity
a healthcare facility for outpatient care
A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
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.
A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
A bed-ridden person
Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.

Examples

A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.
He needed to attend a Scrabble CLINIC to improve his vocabulary and strategy.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).

Scrabble Score: 10

clinic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
clinic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clinic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

clinic: valid Words With Friends Word