cardioabdominal
The medical article I'm currently editing contains several uses of cardioabdominal (e.g., "The females had mild accumulation of a serosanguineous fluid in the cardioabdominal cavity"). As I generally...
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Quote:The females had mild accumulation of a serosanguineous fluid in the cardioabdominal cavity"Have we got any doctors on here who might be able to tell me where one's cardiobdominal cavity might...
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IANAD, AFAIK the heart and lungs would be in the thoracic cavity (thorax), while the kidneys, intestines, etc. are in the abdominal cavity with the diaphragm dividing them. There some legitimate use...
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It's not in any of the several medical dictionaries I checked, nor does it show up at all in a Medline search.Of the three Google hits, two are duplicate copies of the same article. In the case of...
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Tossing a hyphen in there I get 448. Not exactly a landslide but better than three.
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Cardio-abdominal gets many more, 653 of them. Which is odd because I thought Google took no account of hyphenation.Pipped by faldage!And in fact in many of the results thrown up the word isn't...
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Yeah, but lots of the hits are actually non-hyphenated constructions like this: "Classes focus on cardio, abdominal, strength, balance, flexibility and body/mind coordination." Still nothing about...
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A few mentions of 'cardio-abdominal syndrome' though, whatever that may be.
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Quick checking confirms my recollection: only mammals have a diphragm separating the thoracic and abdominal cavities. If we're talking about birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians or what have you, the...
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But language hat is editing a medical document, Doc. Surely, in the absence of any further qualification, we would presume he was talking about human biology.If it was to do with birds, fish, reptiles...
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Humans would be the default assumption, but since the phrase "cardioabdominal cavity" makes more sense when applied to non-mammals, we should consider the other possibilities. A fair number of papers...
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Dr. T. is (as so often) right. The females in question wereTaita falcons (Falco fasciinucha). I probably should have queried "body cavity," but I just figured these falcon guys have their own jargon...
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If you don't mind me asking, LH, is your editing done before or after peer-review?
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After. The articles have been accepted and are getting spruced up for publication. Can you believe some of these authors can't tell which is the article and which is the book title (in references of...
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Ah, in that case I'd probably figure that if the reviewers let it pass, it's OK. But my editing is pre-submission, for authors whose native language is not English. I have to be more aggressive about...
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Language Hat - given that you are working on a medical journal, I think cardioabdominal is right - your readers would immediately recognise it for what it was. You could hyphenate it - but (again)...
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My problem was not that it was a technical term (believe me, I see terms a thousand times more technical than that every day) but that it doesn't appear to exist as a word.
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OK, I have to ask. If the subject of the study is birds (falcons) how do the authors tell that the source of the pain is ambiguous and either in the heart or the abdomen? Maybe if the birds were...
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You're confusing the usage in the paper LH is editing (which talks about finding fluid in the cardioabdominal cavity [of birds]) with the usage on the acupuncture website (which talks about...
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Someone was asking for medical input. "Cardioabdominal" was NEVER taught [or used] when I was in school. Cardiac was separated from abdominal; eg, a heart attack is signalled by crushing chest pain....
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