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well-nourished-appearing?? - dd
Posted: Jun 05, 2012
On exam, the patient is healthy and well-nourished-appearing? or well-nourished appearing?
This always throws me a little, too, but I would put the second. - jld
[ In Reply To ..]I was originally taught that if a hyphenated modifier precedes the word it modifies, you hyphenate, but if it follows it, you do not.
Now following that logic and IF the word "appearing" was NOT included in there at all, it would either be a well-nourished patient or the patient is well nourished.
However, since we have the word appearing in there, I think the whole thing would have been hyphenated had it been before the word "patient" (a well-nourished-appearing patient), but since it is after it, the last part is not hyphenated, but "well-nourished" still modifies how the patient is "appearing" and that DOES precede the word it modifies.
Therefore, I think the patient is well-nourished appearing, "well-nourished" modifying "appearing," but the whole phrase modifying the "patient." Does that make sense?
:) - dd
[ In Reply To ..]thanks :D
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