clinician

noun

cli·​ni·​cian kli-ˈni-shən 

1

: a person qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory

2

: a person who conducts a clinic

Examples of clinician in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The generative AI chatbot will answer clinicians' queries, drawing upon UpToDate's extensive library of medical literature and input from more than 7,600 expert physicians. —Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

West Virginia is a rural state with limited health-care infrastructure; many families don’t have easy access to clinicians, and vaccination requirements create an impetus to engage with the medical system. —Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025

Issuing a health advisory alerts clinicians to consider Ebola in patients who have concerning symptoms and who have recently traveled to infected areas. —Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025

For that reason, some clinicians have experimented with off-label, low-dose rapamycin to try to slow aging. —New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for clinician

• addition
• admission
• ambition
• attrition
• audition
• cognition
• coition
• commission
• condition
• contrition
• dentition
• dismission

Medical Definition

clinician

noun

cli·​ni·​cian klin-ˈish-ən 

: an individual qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory