PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primary care provider mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMARY 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 ("primary 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 "primary 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 ("primary care provider" is a member of...):

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