medicalese

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noun

The jargon used by medical professionals.

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Meanings

nounmedicalese (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountableThe 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: doctorese, doctorspeak

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe jargon used by medical professionals.

Similar
doctoresedoctorspeak
Also see
doctoresedoctorspeak

Origin

From medical + -ese.

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Cite this entry
APA

medicalese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/medicalese

MLA

“medicalese.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/medicalese. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “medicalese,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/medicalese.

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