Synonyms of clinics

clinics

noun

plural of clinic

1

as in hospitals

a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured

After working as a city emergency room physician for many years, he started a small clinic in a remote village.

Related Words

• hospitals
• infirmaries
• medical centers
• hospices
• homes
• sanatoriums
• sick bays
• sanitaria
• sickrooms
• halfway houses
• sanitoria

2

as in workshops

an intensive educational or training program

This winter, Shelley will attend a softball clinic to prepare herself for the upcoming season.

Related Words

• workshops
• seminars
• conferences
• meetings
• boot camps
• conventions
• gatherings
• symposia
• forums
• roundtables
• round-robins
• congresses
• assemblies
• councils
• convocations
• get-togethers
• huddles

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of clinics

In Binga, a poor and isolated district in northwestern Zimbabwe, funding cuts forced Population Services Zimbabwe to slow down its mobile clinics. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

Narrowing the spread also weakens the incentive to steer patients toward costlier drugs and to acquire physician practices and infusion clinics — the very behaviors that have made care more expensive. — Casey B. Mulligan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026

The general fund covers everything from Preckwinkle’s office to the courts and property tax system, while the health fund covers the county’s safety-net clinics and hospitals as well as its Medicaid program, CountyCare. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026

Confronting challenges The Pennsylvania Department of Health has hosted nearly 200 pop-up vaccination clinics where workers have given thousands of MMR doses since the start of the measles outbreak this spring. — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

So, if frequent skin treatments at clinics and spas are running up your credit card bill, Qure’s at-home system could be a solid (and more cost-efficient) alternative for getting glowing skin in the comfort of your own bathroom. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026

The real opportunity is to augment physical clinics rather than replace them. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Only about 55 percent of emergency departments did both, while 68 percent of clinics and 67 percent of urgent cares passed. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

The measure’s primary backer, SEIU-UHW, argues the clinics are misspending funds on items like executive compensation that should go towards patient care. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026