policlinic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”) + English clinic.

Noun

policlinic (plural policlinics)

1. (US, medicine, very rare) An outpatient clinic, especially of a hospital.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with polyclinic.
• Absent from most British dictionaries (including Longman, Collins, and Oxford Online), this term is used (though only rarely) by US medical professionals for the outpatient clinic or outpatient department of a European hospital.

Translations

outpatient clinic, especially of a hospital

• 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)

• Czech: poliklinika (cs) f
• Dutch: polikliniek (nl) f
• Estonian: polikliinik
• Finnish: poliklinikka (fi)
• French: policlinique (fr) f
• Georgian: პოლიკლინიკა (ṗoliḳliniḳa)
• German: Poliklinik (de) f
• Indonesian: poliklinik (id)
• Kazakh: емхана (emxana), поликлиника (poliklinika)
• Kyrgyz: поликлиника (poliklinika)
• Latvian: poliklīnika f
• Lithuanian: poliklinika f
• Malay: poliklinik (ms)
• Polish: poliklinika (pl) f, przychodnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: policlínica (pt) 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)

Further reading

• policlinic in the American Heritage Dictionary

• “policlinic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “policlinic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French policlinique.

Adjective

policlinic m or n (feminine singular policlinică, masculine plural policlinici, feminine and neuter plural policlinice)

1. outpatient clinic, dispensary, policlinic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	policlinic		policlinică		policlinici	policlinice
	definite	policlinicul		policlinica		policlinicii	policlinicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	policlinic		policlinice		policlinici	policlinice
	definite	policlinicului		policlinicei		policlinicilor	policlinicelor