Clinic (8)

I believe the answer is:
hospital
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">clinic</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for hospital that I've seen before include "Treatment and care centre" , "Infirmary" , "Barts, e.g." , "Stop hail (anag.)" , "Healing institution" .)