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patientspeak

patientspeak noun: the style of language used by medical patients.

Noun

patientspeak (uncountable)

  1. The style of language used by medical patients.

Origin of patientspeak

From patient + -speak.

Questions about patientspeak

What does patientspeak mean?
Patientspeak means the style of language used by medical patients.
What part of speech is patientspeak?
Patientspeak is a noun.

Words near patientspeak in the dictionary

  1. patiently
  2. patientness
  3. patients
  4. patients under investigation
  5. patients zero
  6. patientspeak
  7. patiki
  8. Patikul
  9. Patil
  10. Patillo
  11. Patillos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patientspeak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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