Before revision: The discipline of medicinehas been referred to as having its own argot which includes abbreviations , acronyms, and "technical colloquialisms" .
After revision: In the field of medicine, physicians have been said to have their own spoken argot, cant or slang, which incorporates commonly understood abbreviations and acronyms, frequently used technical colloquialisms, and much everyday professional slang (that may or may not be institutionally and geographically localized) .