Excerpt from Music to My Ears
John Devine
"I tried to keep up with the conversation as best I could, but when I heard phrases like myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia I just knew I couldn’t hack it as a physician."
"I tried to keep up with the conversation as best I could, but when I heard phrases like myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia I just knew I couldn’t hack it as a physician."
In this quotation from the selection, myocardial infarction and fibromyalgia are examples of
A) dialect.
B) hyperbole.
C) jargon.
D) slang.