policlinic

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”) + English clinic.

policlinic (plural policlinics)

1. (US, medicine, very rare) An outpatient clinic, especially of a hospital.

• Not to be confused with polyclinic.
• Absent from most British dictionaries (including Longman, Collins, and Oxford Online), this term is used (though only rarely) by US medical professionals for the outpatient clinic or outpatient department of a European hospital.

• policlinic in the American Heritage Dictionary

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “policlinic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “policlinic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from French policlinique.

policlinic m or n (feminine singular policlinică, masculine plural policlinici, feminine and neuter plural policlinice)

1. outpatient clinic, dispensary, policlinic