doctorspeak en · NOUN
Etymology
From doctor + -speak.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The jargon used by doctors; medical language.
The patient, who lumbers painfully, has a question: She desperately wants a knee replacement, but doesn’t understand why three doctors have rejected her. Ms. Purdie translates doctorspeak.
2007 August 21, Jan Hoffman, “Soldiering On, Home to Home, in a Squeezed Health System”, in New York Times: