lab technician

noun

variants or less commonly laboratory technician or lab tech

plural lab technicians also laboratory technicians or lab techs

: a person employed by a laboratory (see laboratory sense 1a) to perform various tasks (such as conducting experiments or tests, analyzing data, or maintaining equipment) under the supervision of a manager or lead researcher

Lab technicians … analyze specimens one at a time under a microscope.

—Carrie Gottlieb

Using methods invented in the mid-1980's, laboratory technicians can identify precise genetic markers from bits of biological evidence …

—C. J. Chivers

If your blood contains such antibodies, the test will … change color, whereupon the lab tech will repeat the experiment.

—Rian Malan

Examples of lab technician in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The death of the lab technician, who worked at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia in Russia’s southeast, has sparked international concern and speculation in recent days about the cause of her illness. — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

The lab technician is a 28-year-old woman who worked at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, which was set up in the 1930s as an anti-plague body and later expanded its scope to other highly dangerous diseases. — Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

One innovation might mean very different things to patients, healthcare providers, lab technicians, insurance payers and so on. — Jill Collins, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above