As nouns the difference between professional and medicalese
is that
professional is a person who belongs to a profession while
medicalese is (informal) the jargon used by medical professionals.
As an adjective professional
is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
professional English
Noun
( wikipedia professional)
( en noun)
A person who belongs to a profession
A person who earns his living from a specified activity
An expert.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.
Adjective
( en adjective)
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
(lb) Expert.
Derived terms
* non-professional, nonprofessional
* professionalism
* unprofessional
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medicalese English
Noun
(-)
(informal) The jargon used by medical professionals.
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