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Medicalese

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The jargon used by medical professionals. informal, uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

From medical + -ese.

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