What does medicalese mean?
Medicalese means (informal) The jargon used by medical professionals..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(informal) 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.
Use medicalese when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Medicalese means (informal) The jargon used by medical professionals..
Common synonyms include doctorese, doctorspeak.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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