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policlinical

policlinical adjective: of or relating to a policlinic.

Adjective

policlinical (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of or relating to a policlinic.
    • The policlinical instruction in Paris—a system which had there been practised for centuries—was, in 1644, incorporated with the curriculum of the medical faculty.1891, Theodor Puschmann, translated by Evan H. Hare, “Medical Teaching in the Theoretical Departments and in Anatomy, Botany, Chemistry, and Materia Medica”, in A History of Medical Education from...
    • Having been declared unfit for this journey by a policlinical Baba-Iaga, the Kataev persona turns to a Good Fairy, a doctor in white, who, after performing a thorough physical examination, of which the reader witnesses only the proctologic preparations, offers her blessings for Kataev to travel.1999, Richard C[handler] Borden, “The Solipsist as Memoirist”, in The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev’s Mauvism and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)...

Origin of policlinical

From policlinic + -al.

Questions about policlinical

What does policlinical mean?
Policlinical means of or relating to a policlinic.
What part of speech is policlinical?
Policlinical is an adjective.

Words near policlinical in the dictionary

  1. policing up
  2. policingly
  3. policings
  4. policism
  5. policlinic
  6. policlinical
  7. policlinics
  8. policosanol
  9. policosanols
  10. policresulen
  11. policresulin

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