clínica
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
clínica f (plural clíniques)
- (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
- female equivalent of clínic
Adjective
clínica f sg
Galician
Pronunciation
Noun
clínica f (plural clínicas)
- (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
Adjective
clínica
Further reading
- “clínica”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Portuguese
Etymology
From clínico (“clinical”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca
Noun
clínica f (plural clínicas)
- (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
- 1889, França Júnior, As Doutoras, 2nd act, 12th scene.
- A sua clínica desaparecerá, minha senhora, no dia em que as mulheres formarem-se às dúzias e aos centos.
- Your clinic will disappear, my lady, on the day that the women graduate by the dozens and by the hundreds.
- 1889, França Júnior, As Doutoras, 2nd act, 12th scene.
- (uncountable) medicine; healthcare (the practice of treating disease)
- 1927, Humberto de Campos, chapter 285, in A caridade, O Brasil Anedótico:
- O dr. Mateus Saraiva, que exerceu a clínica no Rio de Janeiro na primeira parte do século XVIII
- Doctor Mateus Saraiva, who pratised medicine in Rio de Janeiro in the first part of the 18th century.
- Synonym: medicina
- female equivalent of clínico
Related terms
- clinicar
- clínico
Adjective
clínica
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin clinĭce, from Ancient Greek κλινική (klinikḗ).
Pronunciation
Noun
clínica f (plural clínicas)
- (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
- feminine of clínico
Related terms
Adjective
clínica f sg
Further reading
- “clínico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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