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

Detection may increase, but clinicians and quality teams inherit an expanding queue of low-value alerts. — Arpan Saxena, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Regulators and clinicians generally sort these products into three buckets. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026

Rather than using the feedback to drive behavioral changes, Lipska and the research team note these devices are intended to gather information to discuss with your clinician. — Crystal Gwizdala, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026

For many years, clinicians blamed women for their own urinary tract infections. — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

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