please sm

Posted By: mtinokc on 2009-01-06
In Reply to: small-bowel when to hypen - CO MT

Subject: please sm

hyphenate when it could cause confusion: you want it to read a disease of the small bowel, not a small disease of the bowel..., so I would think small-bowel Crohn's disease

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small-bowel when to hypen - CO MT
- please sm - mtinokc
  - Have NEVER seen "small bowel" - hyphenated (NM)
    - that's good news... - mtinokc
      - Small bowel is the anatomic term. It is - sm
        now i'm curious... - confused about a common term
- I can't think of a case when you would - sm
- See message. - pc
- Sorry for my spelling, that's adjective. - CO MT

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