HEALTH CARE PROVIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health care provider mean? 

• HEALTH CARE PROVIDER (noun)
  The noun HEALTH CARE PROVIDER has 1 sense:

1. a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

  Familiarity information: HEALTH CARE PROVIDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH CARE PROVIDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider

Hypernyms ("health care provider" is a kind of...):

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "health care provider"):

bonesetter (someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones)

electrologist (someone skilled in the use of electricity to remove moles or warts or hair roots)

medical assistant (a person trained to assist medical professionals)

medical man; medical practitioner (someone who practices medicine)

nurse (one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician))

apothecary; chemist; druggist; pharmacist; pill pusher; pill roller (a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs)

Holonyms ("health care provider" is a member of...):

health profession (the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients)

 Context examples 

Consult your health care provider if you have big changes in your cycle.

(Menstruation, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider before giving two medicines at the same time.

(Medicines and Children, Food and Drug Administration)

Your health care provider can do thinking, memory, and language tests to see if you have MCI.

(Mild Cognitive Impairment, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

A medical oncologist often is the main health care provider for someone who has cancer.

(Medical oncologist, NCI Dictionary)

They help health care providers and family members make end-of-life decisions if you are not able to make them.

(Critical Care, NIH)

The biofilms appear in two-thirds of the infections seen by health care providers.

(Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds, National Science Foundation)

Trust your intuition - if you are worried about your baby, call your health care provider right away.

(Common Infant and Newborn Problems, NIH)

Your health care provider can work with you to find the treatment that's best for you.

(Compulsive Gambling, NIH: Natonal Institutes of Health)

Minimal interventions directed at individuals that do not involve a health care provider, such as self-help and telephone counseling.

(Minimal Contact Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

If a wound appears to be infected, see a health care provider.

(MRSA, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)