CLINICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clinician mean? 

• CLINICIAN (noun)
  The noun CLINICIAN has 1 sense:

1. a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments

  Familiarity information: CLINICIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLINICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("clinician" is a kind of...):

practician; practitioner (someone who practices a learned profession)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

 Context examples 

It applies to clinicians who are pursuing basic science careers; clinicians who are pursuing careers in patient-oriented research; and to individuals pursuing careers in the prevention, control and population sciences.

(Career Transition Award, NCI Thesaurus)

A collection of scientist and/or clinician users with a common research objective related to diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

(Cancer Research Group, NCI Thesaurus)

They can be coated with molecules such as antibodies that will bind to proteins and other substances of interest to researchers and clinicians.

(Nanowire, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Based on the information gather at the 2, 6, and 12 month visits, the clinician rates the patients change from baseline on a 7 increment scale ranging from 'Marked Improvement' to 'Marked Worsening.'

(Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The questionnaire is completed by a clinician familiar with the patient's medical history.

(Clinical Global Impression Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

This instrument consists of 11 signs or symptoms which are assessed and rated by a clinician.

(Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

This instrument consists of 3 sections, no special care needed, unable to work, and unable to care for one's self and is completed by a clinician based on their observations.

(Karnofsky Performance Status Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The test results are often used by a clinician to diagnose disease or disordered function.

(Cytologic Test, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized rating scale developed and copyrighted by Inflexxicon, Inc. which is used to aid clinicians in determining if a patient may be improperly using opioids for the treatment of pain.

(Current Opioid Misuse Measure Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Mayo's philosophy of patient care is that medicine is best practiced as a cooperative science with clinicians, specialists, and researchers working as a team.

(Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)