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medicalese

medicalese noun: the jargon used by medical professionals.

Noun

medicalese (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The jargon used by medical professionals.
    • Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

Synonyms of medicalese

Origin of medicalese

From medical + -ese.

Questions about medicalese

What does medicalese mean?
Medicalese means the jargon used by medical professionals.
What part of speech is medicalese?
Medicalese is a noun.

Words near medicalese in the dictionary

  1. medical students' disease
  2. medical tape
  3. medical tapes
  4. medical tourism
  5. medicaled out
  6. medicalese
  7. medicaling out
  8. medicalisation
  9. medicalisations
  10. medicalise
  11. medicalised

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