policlinical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to a policlinic.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Dutch maternity care distinguishes between three types of delivery: a home birth and a ‘policlinical’ birth within primary care, and a ‘clinical’ birth within secondary (and, in very complicated cases, tertiary) care."
Etymology
From policlinic + -al.