Meanings
- not comparablerareOf or relating to a policlinic.
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.
1891, Theodor Puschmann, translated by Evan H. Hare, “Medical Teaching in the Theoretical Departments and in Anatomy, Botany, Chemistry, and Materia Medica”, in A History of Medical Education from the Most Remote to the Most Recent Times, London: H[enry] K[ing] Lewis, […], page 4122 more examples
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.
1999, Richard C[handler] Borden, “The Solipsist as Memoirist”, in The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev’s Mauvism and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory), Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 121Dutch 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.
2015, Monika Ewa Kaminska, “The Netherlands”, in Patricia Kennedy, Naonori Kodate, editors, Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context: Risk, Citizenship and Welfare Regimes (Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 241
Origin
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