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doctorese

doctorese noun: the jargon used by medical doctors.

Noun

doctorese (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The jargon used by medical doctors.
    • Yes, there it was—a record of the emergency room treatment he'd received. It took her a moment to translate the doctorese, but it sounded as if the impact of the steering wheel had bruised his heart, causing fluid to build up.2009, Eileen Wilks, Mortal Sins, New York: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 257

Synonyms of doctorese

Origin of doctorese

From doctor + -ese.

Questions about doctorese

What does doctorese mean?
Doctorese means the jargon used by medical doctors.
What part of speech is doctorese?
Doctorese is a noun.

Words near doctorese in the dictionary

  1. doctordom
  2. doctored
  3. doctored up
  4. doctorer
  5. doctorers
  6. doctorese
  7. doctoress
  8. doctoresses
  9. doctorfish
  10. doctorfishes
  11. doctorhood

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