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medicalese

noun

Etymology

From medical + -ese.

  1. derived from medicus
  2. derived from medicālis
  3. borrowed from médical
  4. suffixed as medicalese — “medical + -ese”

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

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