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doctorspeak

doctorspeak noun: the jargon used by doctors; medical language.

Noun

doctorspeak (uncountable)

  1. The jargon used by doctors; medical language.
    • The patient, who lumbers painfully, has a question: She desperately wants a knee replacement, but doesn’t understand why three doctors have rejected her. Ms. Purdie translates doctorspeak.2007 August 21, Jan Hoffman, “Soldiering On, Home to Home, in a Squeezed Health System”, in New York Times

Synonyms of doctorspeak

Origin of doctorspeak

From doctor + -speak.

Questions about doctorspeak

What does doctorspeak mean?
Doctorspeak means the jargon used by doctors; medical language.
What part of speech is doctorspeak?
Doctorspeak is a noun.

Words near doctorspeak in the dictionary

  1. doctors' certificates
  2. Doctors' Commons
  3. doctors' offices
  4. doctorship
  5. doctorships
  6. doctorspeak
  7. doctory
  8. doctour
  9. doctours
  10. doctourship
  11. doctress

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