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Are cranial nerves no longer roman numerals? - I see it both ways now.

Posted: Feb 25, 2015

cranial nerves - same as disc/disk below

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Both are acceptable, go with whatever your account specifies.

Roman - Round the mulberry bush

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Damn those cranial nerves. In the past 20 years (depending on where I worked), I was told they are Roman Numerals mostly, then one company said they are numeric numbers - so I go with what I first learned over 25 years ago - Roman Numerals!

Dorothy - Round the mulberry bush

Dorothy - Dotts

Don't you think anything has changed over the - last 25 years.

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I've been working since 1972, and I go with the changes. The trend has long been to replace Roman numbers with Arabic. Were you working when we used type I and type II diabetes, and it was officially changed in the 1980s.

Even grammar rules are different (less complex) than what I learned in 7th grade grammar classes.

Get with it, lady. Times change.

I don't know any more, but - my feeling is

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why should they be Roman numerals? I think you are going to see RNs used less and less for anything because people simply won't know what they are.

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