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small-bowel or small bowel - lizh

Posted: Mar 16, 2010

hypen or no hyphen?

as in small bowel obstruction - lizh

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nm

no hyphen - mh

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xx

Thank you! nm - lizh

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nm

Hyphen - MT

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Not putting a hyphen here really is incorrect. That is indicating that the bowel obstruction was small. That's why this needs a hyphen. We are talking about the small bowel. As other note said small-bowel obstruction. Obstruction of the small bowel.

"obstruction of small bowel" OR "small-bowel obstruction" - flybye

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use a hyphen to avoid confusion...

it's not a 'SMALL OBSTRUCTION of the bowel' but it is an 'OBSTRUCTION of the small bowel'

so you need the hyphen to clarify; small-bowel obstruction

that's the way I was trained, as well - nm

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nm

AHHH confused! - lizh

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I thought so at first as well. Isn't there a book/list somewhere with the official/correct MT words?

It's not "right words" vs. "wrong words," it's knowing English grammar - SM

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-- and when two words (such as "small" and "bowel" in this case) form a compound modifier and require a hyphen.

small bowel - Carol

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Do not hyphenate small bowel. Think of the small bowel as one entity. If you add a hyphen, it would indicate that the bowel is small. Research small bowel on the Internet for a better understanding. I would never hyphenate small bowel. A similar nonhyphenated word would be upper extremity. If the sentence read, "upper extremity weakness," you would not hyphenate upper extremity here either. The upper extremity is understood to be one entity.

respectfully disagree...compound modifier...sm - flybye

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hyphenation of a compound modifier like small-bowel obstruction is necessary.

if you're interested, there's an explanation here: The AAMT Book of Style Student Workbook; see the link

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