Polyclinicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From poly- +‎ clinic.

発音

• 韻: -ɪnɪk

名詞

polyclinic (plural polyclinics)

1. A usually private clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated.

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with policlinic, a very rare term (pronounced the same way) not found in most UK dictionaries and only rarely used by US medical professionals for independent outpatient clinics and for outpatient departments of European hospitals (especially originally, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of diseases).

参照

• “polyclinic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “polyclinic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “polyclinic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.