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clinicides

clinicides is the plural of clinicide.

Meaning of clinicide

Noun

clinicide (countable and uncountable, plural clinicides)

  1. The deliberate killing of a patient in the course of medical treatment.
    • [page 90, column 1] [Harold] Shipman killed himself in Wakefield prison on 13 January 2004. The Coronial hearing brought to an end a series of inquiries that found he had committed at least 250 murders in a killing career – a clinicide – that went back to internship at Pontefract General Infirmary....2006 March, Robert [M.] Kaplan, “Harold Shipman: An Awful Sod: Review of Clarkson W., Evil beyond Belief”, in Gary Walter, editor, Australasian Psychiatry, volume 14, number 1, [Thousand Oaks...

Questions about clinicides

What is clinicides the plural of?
Clinicides is the plural of clinicide.

Words near clinicides in the dictionary

  1. clinicals
  2. clinician
  3. clinicians
  4. clinicidal
  5. clinicide
  6. clinicides
  7. clinico-
  8. clinico-pathological
  9. clinicoanatomical
  10. clinicobacteriological
  11. clinicobiochemical

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