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(Though of course non-medical writers' opinions also welcome)
I'm doing some editing and I'm wondering about the use of hyphens in
medical/scientific writing. I tend to overuse them but that's because they
don't tend to need the overuse in my usual writing.
So what's a useful rule of thumb for phrases like cholesterol
loaded/cholestorol-loaded? I remember the scientific community (well one
Ph.D. student) disliking my liberal use of the hyphen; am I justified?
Please copy my e-mail address (mattbin -at- hotmail -dot- com), as I am working through
the night on this one and only receive the digest format.
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