3. (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
{ Clin"ic*al (kl&ibreve;n"&ibreve;k*al), Clin"ic (kl&ibreve;n"&ibreve;k) }, a. [Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.] 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. -- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
Clin"ic*al*ly, adv. In a clinical manner.
||Cli*nique" (?), n. [F.] (Med.) A clinic.
||Clin"i*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kli`nh bed.] (Bot.) See Clinanthium.
Clink (kl&ibreve;&nsm;k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinked (kl&ibreve;&nsm;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking.] [OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Clank, Clench, Click, v. i.] To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
And let me the canakin clink.
Shak.
Clink (kl&ibreve;&nsm;k), v. i. 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.