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doctorese

noun

Etymology

From doctor + -ese.

  1. derived from doctor
  2. derived from doctour
  3. inherited from doctor
  4. suffixed as doctorese — “doctor + ese”

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doctorese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA