medicalese

English

Etymology

medical +‎ -ese

Noun

medicalese (uncountable)

1. (informal) The jargon used by medical professionals.
   • 2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• doctorese, doctorspeak