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- noun informal The
jargon used bymedical professionals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I quickly learned art-speak lingo, as I had learned to decipher "medicalese" as a health-and-science TV-news producer.
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The fellow has excellent interpersonal skills, and ends up translating the "medicalese" with the patients.
Archive 2006-11-01 James Lynch 2006
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The fellow has excellent interpersonal skills, and ends up translating the "medicalese" with the patients.
3 Lbs. digitaldoc 2006
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While not a medical text, the unfolding story reduces much "medicalese" to plain English.
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Whoever decides to name medical diseases has two choices: Use medicalese see pyloric stenosis or call it as you see it.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Whoever decides to name medical diseases has two choices: Use medicalese see pyloric stenosis or call it as you see it.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Whoever decides to name medical diseases has two choices: Use medicalese see pyloric stenosis or call it as you see it.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Whoever decides to name medical diseases has two choices: Use medicalese see pyloric stenosis or call it as you see it.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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I'm afraid I drifted into medicalese with "within normal limits".
Brownback Supports Pace's "Homosexuality Is Immoral" Comment 2009
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Curing Medical Information Disorder by Chris Sherman, SearchDay Oct 17 - recommends Healthline - "a specialized medical search engine that offers high-quality, authoritative information that's easy to find, even if you don't speak medicalese."
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