单词 | medspeak |
释义 | medspeakn. Technical or euphemistic jargon concerning health, disease, medical practice, etc., used esp. by doctors. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups indenture Englisha1568 water language1702 jockeyism1802 slum1812 Polari1846 stable-language1856 scientificism1860 water-slang1860 Oxfordish1863 galley-slang1867 pitmatic1885 commercialese1910 legalese1911 academese1917 Hollywoodese1920 businessese1921 Hollywoodism1925 trade unionese1927 advertisingese1929 officese1935 sociologese1940 Whitehallese1940 Newspeak1949 patter1949 Pentagonese1950 educationese1958 computerese1960 managementese1961 spacespeak1963 computer-speak1968 techno-jargon1972 business-speak1973 Eurospeak1975 Euro-jargon1976 technospeak1976 doctorspeak1977 corporate-speak1978 medspeak1979 mellowspeak1979 technobabble1981 teenspeak1982 management-speak1986 codespeak1987 1979 N. P. Christy in New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 300 979/2 Medspeak can be learned by anyone, even a medical student. 1987 Washington Post 7 Apr. (Med. Suppl.) 10/1 Call it ‘medicalese’, ‘gobbledygook’ or ‘medspeak’, it's medicine's special language, often vital to discourse between doctors but maddening to patients. 1993 Guardian 5 Jan. ii. 17 The Health Page New Year resolution is to campaign against medspeak/healthspeak. We start with an anthology of medical euphemisms with thanks to the many readers who have contributed to it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1979 |
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