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The liver is four finger breaths below the right coastal margin - luvsgarfield68

Posted: Nov 26, 2010

Is this the correct sentence?

The liver is four finger breaths below the right coastal margin and tender to percussion?

Yes - sm - sm

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Your sentence is correct, but your spelling is not.

answer to question - luvsgarfield68

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Thanx. So I see coastal is the incorrect spelling? Is it costal? That doesn't look right, I'll check in the morning. Thanx.

finger-breadths...costal margin - please note

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My own preference is for fingerbreadth, both correct. NM - at the end of a line. NM

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Not hyphenated - 4 fingerbreadths - NM

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fingerbreadth - pharmgal

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The measurement is spelled
fingerbreadth.

measurements - grammar

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That is fingerbreadths. You put your hand on the abdomen and count how many fingers you can stretch out. (the hand is held in left-to-right position). Percussion is the right term. D AND T are cognates and and it is difficult to hear and most dictators don't try to pronounce things correctly.

Fingerbreadths - costal margin - Sherry

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The liver is 4 fingerbreadths below the right costal margin.

Note: fingerbreadths NOT fingerbreaths
costal margin NOT coastal margin

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