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Age
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Discrimination based on age (young or old) is ageism. Because the term elderly connotes a stereotype, avoid using it as a noun. When referring to the entire population of elderly persons, use of the ...
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Age and Sex Referents
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Use specific terminology to refer to persons' age. See also , Inclusive Language, Age. Neonates or newborns are persons from birth to 1 month of age. Infants are children aged 1 month to 1 year (12 ...
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Anatomy
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Authors often err in referring to anatomic regions or structures as the “right heart,” “left chest,” “left neck,” and “right brain.” Generally these terms can be corrected by inserting a phrase such ...
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Articles
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The article a is used before the aspirate h (eg, a historic occasion) and nonvocalic y (eg, a ubiquitous organism). Abbreviations and acronyms are preceded by a or an according to the sound following ...
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Back-formations
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Back-formation is the creation of a new word in the mistaken belief that it was the source of an existing word. Many back-formations are verbs, some of them derived from abstract nouns (ambulate from ...
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Clock Referents
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Occasionally, reference to a locus of insertion, position, or attitude is given in terms of a clock-face orientation, as seen by the viewer (see also , Numbers and Percentages, Use of Numerals, ...
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Correct and Preferred Usage
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The second quote, from a 1904 editorial in JAMA, certainly holds true today, but of course, editors do consider manuscripts that are poorly written but are of good science, although they ...
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Correct and Preferred Usage of Common Words and Phrases
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
UPDATE: We will discontinue using quotation marks to identify parts of an article, but retain the capitalization; eg, This is discussed in the Methods section (not the “Methods” section). This change ...
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Disabilities
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/), “a disability exists when an individual has any physical or psychological illness that ‘substantially limits’ a major ...
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Expendable Words and Circumlocution
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Some words and phrases can usually be omitted without affecting meaning, and omitting them often improves the readability of a sentence: Quite, very, and rather are often overused and misused and can ...
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