HEALTH PROFESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health profession mean? 

• HEALTH PROFESSION (noun)
  The noun HEALTH PROFESSION has 1 sense:

1. the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH PROFESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("health profession" is a kind of...):

profession (the body of people in a learned occupation)

Meronyms (members of "health profession"):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

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

medical community; medical profession (the body of individuals who are qualified to practice medicine)

nursing (the profession of a nurse)