HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health professional mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH PROFESSIONAL (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 professional" 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 professional"):

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 professional" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

A process by which a health professional creates a regimen of physical activity intended to maintain or improve the health of a subject.

(Exercise Counseling, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

A communication process between a specially trained health professional and a person concerned about the genetic risk of disease.

(Genetic Counseling, NCI Dictionary)

A health professional who is licensed to do certain medical procedures under the guidance of a doctor.

(PA, NCI Dictionary)

A complete physical examination of a woman's external and internal reproductive organs by a health professional.

(Pelvic Examination, NCI Thesaurus)

A process by which a health professional with special training in nutrition helps people make healthy food choices and form healthy eating habits.

(Dietary counseling, NCI Dictionary)

A health professional with special training in nutrition who can help with dietary choices.

(Dietitian, NCI Dictionary)

A health professional who takes care of patients.

(Clinician, NCI Dictionary)

A health professional who works directly with patients, or uses data from patients, to do research on health and disease and to develop new treatments.

(Clinical researcher, NCI Dictionary)

A health professional trained to care for people who are ill or disabled.

(Nurse, NCI Dictionary)

This instrument consists of two parts, the first part is a patient history and can be completed by the patient while the second part is physical exam completed by a health professional.

(Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)