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Molecular Terms: Considerations and Examples.
Cheryl Iverson
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11 ed.)
Molecular terms often are more familiar in unexpanded form; their expansions may be obscure. Molecular terms often mix numbers, letters, and cases. They may be abbreviations or abbreviations within abbreviations (for instance, see TAF and subsequent entries in Table 14.10-2). Molecular terms differ from standard abbreviations, which typically are uppercase initialisms (eg, PVC for premature ventricular contraction). In contrast, many molecular terms are (or incorporate) contractions of single words, using all lowercase letters or mixing capital and lowercase letters (eg, apo for apolipoprotein; Hb for hemoglobin)....View:
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