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Medical scientific terms are the meat and potatoes of clinical discourse. Abbreviations, acronyms, euphemisms, jargon, and slang are the condiments. They add flavor to what might otherwise be multi-syllabic discussions. These sometimes arcane, occasionally insightful, communication tools allow us to convey information in a shorthand manner, often in ways unintelligible to the non-medical person, at least so we think.
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Taylor, R.B. (2008). Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon, and Slang. In: White Coat Tales. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73080-6_6
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