Clinic

a. [Gr. κλινικός, from κλίνη, couch, bed, from κλίνειν, to lean, recline.] Pertaining to a bed; confined to a bed by illness; bed-ridden.

Clinical baptism, that administered to persons on a sick-bed.—Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse delivered at the bedside of the sick, or from notes taken at the bedside, by a physician, with a view to practical instruction in the healing art.—Clinical medicine, that part of medicine which is occupied with the investigation of diseases at the bedside. Dunglison.