noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
antenatal clinic
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an antenatal clinic
well-woman clinic
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a well-woman clinic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antenatal
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Subsequent to this investigation we assessed 2907 urine samples from women attending the antenatal clinics in Dundee between November 1990 and September 1992.
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I was at the antenatal clinic .
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She had gone to St Ebba's antenatal clinic and they had kept her there.
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But you can ask the staff at the antenatal clinic for the results of your Rubella blood test.
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There will be some one on the staff at your antenatal clinic who can explain what benefits you can claim.
diabetic
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A most useful exercise in the diabetic clinic is inspection of injection sites.
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The major part of teaching, motivating and assessing what has been learned should take place outside the diabetic clinic .
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This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic .
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It is complementary to the diabetic clinic and is quite at home dealing with children or pregnant diabetics.
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In the control group all occurred in hospital diabetic clinics whereas for the prompted group 67% occurred in general practice.
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A new patient attends the diabetic clinic and is informed that he has diabetes.
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Setting - Diabetic clinic in a tertiary referral centre.
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Some patients regard diabetic clinic days as holy days and fast for them!
local
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How to find your local clinic .
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Like clockwork, she goes to the local health clinic every third month for three new cycles of free birth control pills.
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I did make an appointment at the local family planning clinic .
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There was no point asking why they did not use the local veterinary clinics .
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How do I find my local clinic ?
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I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair.
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The local clinic has treated several cases of heroin withdrawal, a problem not seen here before 1997.
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If you would like advice on contraception, talk to your doctor or local family planning clinic .
medical
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She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings.
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Only a few of the jails have medical clinics .
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The high occurrence of this condition in medical clinics has been confirmed.
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It also provides a network of schools, medical clinics and other social programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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Wright found the condition in 1% of new patients in general medical clinics and in 5% of new patients attending gastroenterology clinics.
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Once in the terminal, consider seeking help at the in-house first-aid or medical clinic .
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The remaining 73 patients were enrolled in the pulmonary or medical clinics and had a previous diagnosis of asthma.
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Reynaldo tried to escape into the medical clinic and was shot in the leg.
mobile
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The hearing continues today. Mobile clinic cuts toll of Aids.
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QueensCare February will mark the launch of QueensCare's new pediatric mobile dental clinic .
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The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
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One complemented the other, and in September 1957, the first mobile leprosy clinic was launched by Archbishop Perier.
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We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
private
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Yesterday's newspapers contained the usual number of advertisements for abortions in private clinics .
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I remembered how I had nearly died that night when Shoshana had sent us to the private clinic to guard a corpse.
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But that we are being held in protective custody in a special private clinic .
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After a night in hospital he was transferred to a private clinic and is expected to make a complete recovery.
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Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights' in-patient care average £2,400, a financial impossibility without insurance.
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She was admitted to an exclusive private clinic in a neighbouring village.
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He'd spent six weeks as a voluntary patient at a private mental clinic .
psychiatric
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Children brought up in community homes are also over represented among psychiatric clinic attenders.
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Impotence has for some time been the leading complaint at most college psychiatric clinics .
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The monastery of Konigsfelden today houses a psychiatric clinic .
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The unnamed man, from Baden-Baden, about 40 miles from Stuttgart, was taken to a psychiatric clinic .
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Such patients are uncommon in general practice; they are more likely to be seen in psychiatric outpatient clinics .
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Three years later the first psychiatric clinics were held at Sighthill.
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This might be based on a psychiatric clinic or a voluntary agency such as the Samaritans.
special
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You can be tested for infection at a special hospital clinic .
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Then Joe started taking her to special clinics , and she began having all her extra organs removed, just in case.
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But that we are being held in protective custody in a special private clinic .
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Selection Patients were assessed in a special gallstone clinic to determine their suitability for the various treatment techniques available in our unit.
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Doctors have held a special clinic in the village to talk to worried parents.
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But with the help of a special miscarriage clinic , her longed-for baby finally became a reality.
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When prescription charges were introduced, the special clinics were exempted, and treatment continues to be free.
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There are support classes or special clinics linked to examination subjects.
specialist
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Your local drug project may be able to put you in touch with an understanding dentist or specialist dental clinic .
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There are few specialist clinics and those that do exist can not cope with the demand.
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Extend needle and syringe exchange facilities and local health care services and set up a specialist drug clinic .
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It is estimated that only 20 percent of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in the specialist clinics .
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This paper is concerned with the effects of the reforms on general practitioners' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics .
■ NOUN
abortion
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The growth of non-profit-making abortion clinics since the act has meant that abortion is widely available.
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The ruling was not a total defeat for the abortion clinics .
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Under the terms of the legislation an abortion clinic was also required to inform a patient about the possible alternatives to abortion.
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Keeping abortion clinics open was one such issue.
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In the coming abortion clinic battles, these would prove invaluable to her and to me.
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The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.
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It was not widely known that there was a abortion clinic in the neighborhood.
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Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics .
fertility
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Researchers at fertility clinics say that they are already besieged by requests to clone.
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He intends to invite some of these couples and top fertility clinic experts to appear before his panel.
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Therefore, technically somebody had stolen a fertility clinic .
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However, stem cells are generally taken from embryos created and routinely discarded all the time in fertility clinics .
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Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant.
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Most of the country's fertility clinics were listed, although none of the catalogues was up to date.
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The picture was taken at a fertility clinic and was used to illustrate the Princess's caring nature.
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Although fertility clinics must have independent, trained counsellors available by law, clients are not compelled to attend counselling.
health
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It has been associated with the presence of cervical human papillomavirus in patients at student health clinics .
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Now a visit to the public health clinic was in order.
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They established health clinics in some villages, dug wells in others and send their doctors and nurses into the countryside.
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Most public health clinics offer completely anonymous testing.
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Like clockwork, she goes to the local health clinic every third month for three new cycles of free birth control pills.
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Consider, for example, two mural paintings in the round temple at Epidaurus, once an internationally famed health clinic .
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Some representatives from health clinics argued that the proposal would cause more harm than good.
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But Garcia Abrego is believed to have been behind the 1984 killing of six people in a health clinic in Matamoros.
hospital
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You can be tested for infection at a special hospital clinic .
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Any prompted patient referred to a hospital clinic is assessed in the context of the scheme.
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A randomised controlled trial comparing prompted care with continuing hospital clinic care was undertaken.
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Effective community care must provide a mechanism which allows easy and appropriate referral to and from hospital clinics .
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Patients attending hospital clinics had worse glycaemic control, but this seemed to be attributable to the case mix and practice characteristics.
medicine
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Results - New cases of gonorrhoea among men attending genitourinary medicine clinics increased by 7.7% in 1989 and by 4.2% in 1990.
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In 1990 increases in rectal gonorrhoea in men were noted in several genitourinary medicine clinics in London and elsewhere in Britain.
outpatient
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An obvious candidate for inclusion in these tables is the delay between referral and first appointment in outpatient clinics .
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It is these patients who present themselves to the outpatient clinic .
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Instead of the 170-bed hospital at Travis, they proposed building a $ 27 million outpatient clinic , a project Riggs defended.
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Plans for the outpatient clinic have been scrapped.
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Eleven patients were recruited from our outpatient clinic and informed consent was obtained.
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The plan would set up a new payment system for services to Medicare patients who see their doctors at hospital outpatient clinics .
patient
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I had to leave eight clinic patients to come here, and now I have to go to Claremount with him.
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The thief tugged his clothes like a doctor with a clinic patient .
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Results - Cancer mortality was not significantly different in clinic patients as a whole and controls.
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No clinic patient received any examination or laboratory test specific for erectile dysfunction or its causes.
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The medical records of the clinic patients had no indication of any adverse effects or death related to sildenafil usage.
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Thus, most clinic patients are members of the lower socioeconomic group.
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Results Analysis in 1983 had shown no excess of cancer deaths in Glasgow clinic patients compared with Renfrew-Paisley controls.
planning
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Anyone, married or single, male or female, young or not-so-young can go to a family planning clinic .
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Cartwright found that the lower socio-economic groups made less use of such local health services as ante-natal clinics or family planning clinics.
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Did you tell me where the family planning clinics were, what they do, what age you can get the Pill?
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I know now that you can get Durex free from family planning clinics , but not many people know that.
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I did make an appointment at the local family planning clinic .
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But then how many fellas will go into a family planning clinic ?
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Some family planning clinics will also arrange for you to be given a blood test.
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So, make an appointment at your family planning clinic or go and talk to your college doctor.
■ VERB
attend
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She did in fact attend clinic eventually, and this allowed a full discussion of the situation.
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Most think anyone who wants to buy a gun should have to attend a clinic on proper use.
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Subsequent to this investigation we assessed 2907 urine samples from women attending the antenatal clinics in Dundee between November 1990 and September 1992.
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Results - New cases of gonorrhoea among men attending genitourinary medicine clinics increased by 7.7% in 1989 and by 4.2% in 1990.
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Of 225 new patients attending our adolescent gynaecology clinic in 1992, 167 presented with menstrual disturbances.
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She subsequently attended the genetic counselling clinic , and was very anxious about the situation.
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Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics .
build
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The money will go towards the new unit that is to be built at the clinic .
hold
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His constant travelling to outlying villages to hold clinics was only mildly odd.
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And he plans to hold Belfast clinics on a bi-weekly basis.
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Doctors have held a special clinic in the village to talk to worried parents.
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Trevor Barrett-Boyce was also holding a clinic and there was a good sprinkling of small children.
open
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By 1909, he had opened a small clinic with the help of volunteers from a nearby Bible school.
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Later that year she opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn.
plan
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And he plans to hold Belfast clinics on a bi-weekly basis.
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In Los Angeles our supporters outnumbered Operation Rescue demonstrators three to one and kept a planned clinic blockade from even getting started.
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To get a free pregnancy test with Immediate results go to a family planning clinic or a Brook Centre.
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He also argued family planning clinics should not be bound by a gag order preventing them from counseling patients on abortion.
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When Nana turned 16 Awa took her to the family planning clinic .
referred
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Any prompted patient referred to a hospital clinic is assessed in the context of the scheme.
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Subjects- Patients referred to consultant outpatient clinics .
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Five were referred to the pain clinic but without relief of symptoms.
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There was no significant difference in the number of patients referred to hospital eye clinics .
run
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He'd been running the clinic at a substantial profit for nearly ten years.
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Some projects also run Well Person's clinics where you can see a doctor for a health check and Family Planning services.
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Not some earnest, eager and ignorant lady running a slimming clinic in Slough.
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Our unit has run a menorrhagia clinic for 5 years and last year we introduced these charts for all our patients.
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Many practices have applied to run health promotion clinics for managing stress, which are thinly disguised counselling sessions.
set
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Communities set up clinics to deliver free gamma globulin shots to schoolchildren.
visit
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Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently.
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The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic .
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In general, users were treated on an out-patient basis, living at home in the community and visiting the clinic at intervals.
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Rakovsky had never visited the clinic .
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I don't dare to visit the methadone clinic tomorrow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mobile library/shop/clinic etc
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A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
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A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
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A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
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In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
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The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
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We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
walk-in business/clinic/centre etc
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The walk-in centre is the result of two years' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dental clinic
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a marriage clinic
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Ellen decided to go to the family planning clinic for some advice.
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Glassman is one of several doctors who volunteer at the inner-city clinic .
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The Harvey Clinic specializes in the treatment of alcohol-related problems.
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They're giving a free clinic on how to care for roses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are there arrangements for surgeries or clinics out of working hours?
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For example, Monday clinics are prone to develop a backlog owing to bank holidays and statutory holidays.
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I remembered how I had nearly died that night when Shoshana had sent us to the private clinic to guard a corpse.
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It rapidly became evident that this clinic could not make even a dent in the problem.
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Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant.
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Medicare also would reduce co-payments for services received at hospitals and clinics on an outpatient basis.
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The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.
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The first approach concerned a stress management clinic advertising a consultant psychologist.