What's the difference between clinic and polyclinic?

Clinic


Definition:

  • (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
  • (n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
  • (n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  • (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
  • (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (3) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (6) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (7) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (8) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (9) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (10) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
  • (11) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (12) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (13) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
  • (14) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
  • (15) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
  • (16) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (17) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (18) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
  • (19) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (20) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.

Polyclinic


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The APZ-I will find its application among instrumentation of ophthalmological cabinets in polyclinics, hospitals, medical centres, in special cabinets, etc.
  • (2) Suggestions are made of organizational and methodological restructuring of diagnostic polyclinic service which make it possible to substantially increase its diagnostic and economic effectiveness.
  • (3) To raise the quality of medical assistance rendered to patients suffering from cardioneuroses, it is advisable that psychosomatic rooms may be set up at the territorial polyclinics.
  • (4) To improve the situation, the National Sickness Insurance Fund created on its own 6 polyclinics.
  • (5) Improvement of health care of the population calls for marked improvement of the health community system of work in close cooperation with all polyclinical departments and common diagnostic and therapeutic components of the hospital and polyclinic.
  • (6) Thus, only 26.5% of the patients who died of acute impairment of the cerebral blood circulation had been examined by neuropathologists at the polyclinic.
  • (7) The three organizational patterns of cancer patients' follow-up available within the framework of the Oncological Dispensary of the Ivanovo Region--the polyclinic of the Dispensary, the amalgamated oncological polyclinic and the "specialized" oncological polyclinic--are discussed.
  • (8) After a polyclinic was damaged and two stores and a house were destroyed in the first hours of the ceasefire on Sunday, killing an elderly couple, the area had been quiet, Onischenko said.
  • (9) The legal work of children's polyclinics should be based on the evaluation of social risk factors.
  • (10) The authors' experience supports the need of a rehabilitation program for patients who had suffered myocardial infarction which has to be carried out in polyclinical conditions and will be direct continuation of the rehabilitation program carried out in the hospital or in the specialized sanatoria.
  • (11) diagnostic centers of various purpose, specialized clinics and outpatient polyclinics).
  • (12) The article deals with questions of organization and treatment of patients with hernias of the abdomen under conditions of polyclinic.
  • (13) The following article describes five patients with plasma cell leukemia treated during the last two years at a Medical University Polyclinic.
  • (14) A survey in the health area of "Héroes del Moncada" Polyclinics in Plaza de la Revolución municipality from Havana City was carried out by means of a multistage sampling in which 352 women in reproductive age (15-49 years old) were randomly chosen.
  • (15) Using standard methods altogether 6566 men aged 40-59 years were examined in the area of two district polyclinics with a purpose of diagnosing coronary heart disease and risk factors of its development.
  • (16) The elimination of the above mentioned shortcomings will increase the efficacy of the prophylactic medical examination of patients with RD in polyclinics of Moscow and the Moscow region.
  • (17) Sick children, family planning attendants, free patients and in-patients lived relatively nearer to health facilities than polyclinic out-patients.
  • (18) The methods of the retrospective epidemiological analysis of morbidity rate among students attending a specialized polyclinic for students have made it possible to establish the fact that acute respiratory diseases of non-influenza etiology are of the greatest socio-economic importance for students living under the conditions of a hostel.
  • (19) The experience with treatment of 151 patients with obliterative diseases of the vessels of the extremities which was performed under conditions of a day in-patient department of the polyclinic with the use of a course of hyperbaric oxygenation was summarized.
  • (20) Proposed method of spinal osteochondrosis treatment in polyclinic facilitates the economic situation of hospitals and saves patients from hospital bed.

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