Synonym: practician. Similar words: fraction, attraction, interaction, practice, practical, practically, in practice, out of practice. Meaning: [præk'tɪʃənə(r)] 
n. someone who practices a learned profession.
n. someone who practices a learned profession. (211) Your practitioner would use vacuum extraction for the same reason forceps would be used during delivery (see previous question).
More similar words: fraction, attraction, interaction, practice, practical, practically, in practice, out of practice, action, reaction, take action, transaction, attractive, institution, edition, constitution, addition, position, institutional, auction, section, fiction, coalition, tradition, munitions, condition, constitutional, election, reduction, sanction.