clínica

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

clínica f (plural clíniques)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
2. female equivalent of clínic

clínica f sg

1. feminine singular of clínic

• IPA^(key): /ˈklinika/
• Rhymes: -inika
• Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)

clínica

1. feminine singular of clínico

• “clínica”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From clínico (“clinical”).

• Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
   • 1889, França Júnior, As Doutoras, 2nd act, 12th scene.

     A sua clínica desaparecerá, minha senhora, no dia em que as mulheres formarem-se às dúzias e aos centos.

     Your clinic will disappear, my lady, on the day that the women graduate by the dozens and by the hundreds.

2. (uncountable) medicine; healthcare (the practice of treating disease)
   • 1927, Humberto de Campos, chapter 285, in A caridade, O Brasil Anedótico:

     O dr. Mateus Saraiva, que exerceu a clínica no Rio de Janeiro na primeira parte do século XVIII

     Doctor Mateus Saraiva, who pratised medicine in Rio de Janeiro in the first part of the 18th century.

   Synonym: medicina

3. female equivalent of clínico

• clinicar
• clínico

clínica

1. feminine singular of clínico

From Latin clinĭce, from Ancient Greek κλινική (klinikḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklinika/
• Rhymes: -inika
• Syllabification: clí‧ni‧ca

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
2. feminine of clínico

clínica f sg

1. feminine singular of clínico

• “clínico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28