a place or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, especially of a specialist nature (尤指专科)诊所;门诊部 an antenatal clinic. 产前检查门诊部。 ■an occasion or time when such treatment or advice is given 门诊 we're now holding regular clinics. 我们现在开设定期门诊。 ■a gathering at a hospital bedside for the teaching of medicine or surgery 临床授课
(chiefly N. Amer.)a conference or short course on a particular subject (主北美)学术讨论会;短期课程 a drum clinic. 乐器鼓的学术讨论会。
语源
mid 19th cent. (in the sense 'teaching of medicine at the bedside'): from French clinique, from Greek klinikē (tekhnē) 'bedside (art'), from klinē 'bed'