Got ‘bugs in your urine’ or an ‘impressive’ X-ray? Doctors’ jargon can be confusing, especially terms with different everyday and medical meanings.

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The Dictionary.com Summer Word Drop of new words added to the online dictionary included 3 brain-related medical and 5 climate change and warm weather-related terms.

In medical circles during the 1800s, “abortion” was the preferred term for any form of early pregnancy loss, used interchangeably with the more colloquial “miscarriage.” ...