noun

• A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
• (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
• (medicine, obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
• A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
• A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
• A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
• (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
• (obsolete) A bed-ridden person
• (obsolete) Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.