1. (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
2. (n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
3. (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.
4. (v. i.) of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
5. (v. i.) of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
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