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

High caseloads, workforce shortages, increasing administrative demands and limited resources contribute to burnout among clinicians across the state. — Luis Contreras, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026

Keep clinicians in the loop wherever the risk is high, and let the system route its own low-confidence cases to a human automatically. — Ajai Sehgal, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Read more on the challenges researchers and clinicians face as the outbreak continues. — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 25 June 2026

Diane Hoffman, a professor of health law at the University of Maryland, previously found clinicians reporting patients who sought medical help based on at-home microbiome test results. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 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