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clinicide

noun
/ˈklɪnɪsaɪd/UK/ˈklɪnɪˌsaɪd/US

Etymology

From clini(cal) (“dealing with the practical management of patients”) + -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’).

  1. derived from κλῑνικός
  2. derived from clīnicus
  3. borrowed from clinique
  4. suffixed as clinical — “clinic + -al”
  5. suffixed as clinicide — “clinical + cide”

Definitions

  1. The deliberate killing of a patient in the course of medical treatment.

    • The analogies between poisoning patients, forging a will to announce the end of the clinicides and finally, death by hanging seem uncannily close.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA