CLINIQUE
\klɪnˈiːk], \klɪnˈiːk], \k_l_ɪ_n_ˈiː_k]\
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Clinical. Clinique, Clin'icum, is also used substantively for Ecole Clinique or Clinical School: a school in which medicine is taught by examining diseases on the patients themselves, at the bed-side, as it were. Thus, the French say, -"La Clinique de la Charite," "The Clinical School of the Hospital la Charite." The term has been introduced into this country, and anglicised Clinic.
By Robley Dunglison
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).