n. [ See Clinical. ] 1. One confined to the bed by sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [ Obs. ] Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients. [ PJC ]
4. (Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested. [ PJC ]
6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [ fig. ] [ PJC ]