polyclinic

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ clinic

Noun

polyclinic (plural polyclinics)

1. A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease.

Usage notes

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 the outpatient clinic or outpatient department of a European hospital.

Translations

a clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated

• Armenian: պոլիկլինիկա (hy) (poliklinika), համաբուժարան (hy) (hamabužaran)
• Azerbaijani: poliklinika
• Belarusian: паліклі́ніка f (paliklínika)
• Bulgarian: поликли́ника f (poliklínika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門診部／门诊部 (zh) (ménzhěnbù), 门诊部 (zh) (ménzhěnbù)

• Czech: poliklinika (cs) f
• Dutch: polikliniek (nl) f
• Estonian: polikliinik
• Finnish: poliklinikka (fi)
• French: polyclinique (fr) f
• Georgian: პოლიკლინიკა (ṗoliḳliniḳa)
• German: Poliklinik (de) f
• Kazakh: емхана (kk) (emxana), поликлиника (poliklinika)
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• Kyrgyz: поликлиника (poliklinika)
• Latvian: poliklīnika f
• Lithuanian: poliklinika f
• Malay: poliklinik
• Polish: poliklinika (pl) f, przychodnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: policlínica f
• Romanian: policlinică (ro) f
• Russian: поликли́ника (ru) f (poliklínika)
• Slovak: poliklinika f
• Spanish: policlínico m
• Turkish: poliklinik (tr)
• Turkmen: poliklinika
• Ukrainian: поліклі́ніка f (poliklínika)
• Uzbek: poliklinika (uz)

References

• “polyclinic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “polyclinic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “polyclinic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.