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medial femoral tibial with slash or hyphen? - me
Posted: Jul 23, 2012
Dr. says: Mild medial femoral tibial articular cartilage thinning.
Should it be femoral-tibial, or femoral/tibial, or femoral tibial?
I would say femoral/tibial - nm
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femorotibial - Ortho Pro
[ In Reply To ..]I would put femorotibial unless you hear a clear distinction between the two words. If so, I would do femoral/tibial, as the slash implies the word and.
slash=virgule see BOS2 - L&L
[ In Reply To ..]A slash/virgule means the items on both sides are THE SAME, i.e., doctor/patient if the doctor is himself the patient, or 1 person.
A hyphen means they are different, i.e., doctor/patient means a doctor and his or her patient, or 2 different people.
duh, excuse me, doctor-patient means 2 different people. - L&L
[ In Reply To ..]if only I could type...blame is on ASR.
Thanks, L&L! - (see message)
[ In Reply To ..]This is something I had never heard before....thanks for sharing that! It makes sense. Unfortunately, I don't suppose all the dictators realize the distinction.
I hate when they dictate "hyphen" or "dash" or "slash," because it often seems like they use them interchangeably or in random situations, without reason! :-)
medial femoral tibial - eliz
[ In Reply To ..]I prefer femorotibial.
medial lfemoral tibial - poodle
[ In Reply To ..]Usually done as "tibiofemoral", but not sure when femoral first; would probably still combine, "femorotibial", but if done separate - hyphen is more appropriate in this case.
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