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well compensated or well-compensated - hab


Posted: Jul 27, 2014

Doc says, "Ischemic cardiomyopathy, well compensated."   Is it well compensated or well-compensated.  I don't know why i am forgetting this one, but i keep going back and forth on it.  

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The first rule applies to your situation.

In this particular case, use the former (no hyphen). - CMT now useless

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However, if he had said it this way, it would be "well-compensated ischemic cardiomyopathy."

HTH.


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