Question for medical/science writers

Subject: Question for medical/science writers
From: "Matthew Bin" <mattbin -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:11:58 +0000



(Though of course non-medical writers' opinions also welcome)

I'm doing some editing and I'm wondering about the use of hyphens in medical/scientific writing. I tend to overuse them but that's because they don't tend to need the overuse in my usual writing.

So what's a useful rule of thumb for phrases like cholesterol loaded/cholestorol-loaded? I remember the scientific community (well one Ph.D. student) disliking my liberal use of the hyphen; am I justified?

Please copy my e-mail address (mattbin -at- hotmail -dot- com), as I am working through the night on this one and only receive the digest format.


Thanks in advance!
M@


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