Medical Is it okay if I used medical terms and not laymen's language in an interview?

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I recently interviewed at a school. I realized after the fact that when describing a few cases encountered n the ER I was not using common terms and was rather saying stuff like “The patient presented to the ER with he matures and no other associated symptoms.” Or “nephrolithiasis” and “hemoptysis”. Is this bad? I was not doing it on purpose. It certainly was not staged. It was just natural. The interviewers both were physicians.

Did you mean to type hematuria?

No, it's not a mistake to use correct medical terminology you're familiar with when addressing two physicians. If the interviewers had been PhD med school faculty in Bioethics and Statistics, I'd have expected you to use laymen's language to communicate about medical conditions you'd encountered. As a practicing physician one often needs multiple tiers of language expression in their "toolbox" for a given situation, to suit any patient's level of medical literacy.