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

One of the key messages from the JAMA article is that primary care clinicians caring for people with metabolic risk factors should be thinking about liver health and consider screening with noninvasive tools, rather than waiting until symptoms develop. —Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025

In the physician practice space, private equity pitches itself as a promising solution to the challenges of private practice, offering management services and buy outs to senior clinicians seeking to retire. —Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025

This may better position the next generation of clinicians to help their patients make the healthiest choices to maintain their weight and health. —David B. Sarwer, The Conversation, 21 Nov. 2025

His plan includes teaching clinicians who want to replicate accessible-care frameworks in their own communities. —Nia Bowers, USA Today, 20 Nov. 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