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Post by mabs on Aug 9, 2004 6:48:34 GMT -5
Anyone have a good shortcut for "symptomatology"??
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Post by CurleyDeb2 on Aug 9, 2004 9:19:30 GMT -5
Mabs,
I am not an expert, so I too welcome any suggestions. For right now, though, my "shortcut" is
symy - symptomatology
Debbie R
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Post by HeatherGirl on Aug 9, 2004 15:38:27 GMT -5
I use symp
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2004 16:42:52 GMT -5
For right now, though, my "shortcut" is symy - symptomatology Debbie R Debbie's abbreviation is a good example of what is called the ABCZ method of abbreviating a single word. It's named that way because one takes the first three letters of the word (ABC) and adds the last letter (Z) to make the abbreviation. If you want to explore this way of naming single words, here's the link to "A Web Site About Typing Productivity" by Jon Knowles, who thought up this useful naming convention: home.earthlink.net/~agjon/I don't advocate using any single naming convention but rather thinking of your expansions in categories, such as medication names, document section headings, individual words, surgical phrases, etc., and deciding on some conventions for naming the members of each category in similar ways. For example, the ABCZ method works very well for medication names. Entering medication names into your expander is smart transcription because once you enter them capitalized correctly, you never again have to think about whether to capitalize that particular med name or not: your expander does the thinking for you, which it should. I've seen some suggestions other places where people will tell you to enter expansions such as these: ativan=Ativan, tylenol=Tylenol. This serves the purpose of allowing your expander to think for you, all right, by allowing you to type all medication names lower case and be confident that they'll appear correctly in the document, but why stop there? Go further and abbreviate the medication name, even if all you do is use the first 3-4 letters of the name, so that ativ=Ativan, tyl=Tylenol, etc. Then add 1 more modification. Add another expansion for each medication which not only provides the name correctly capitalized but includes the most common dosage of the med, formatted correctly for the account you're working on: ativx = Ativan 1 mg p.o. OR ativx = Ativan 1 mg by mouth OR prilx = Prilosec 20 mg etc. [I'll come up with better examples, I'm sure. These are just off the top of my head. I'll edit this post when I do think of better ones.]
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Post by Diana M. on Aug 11, 2004 13:21:36 GMT -5
I usually have a root and then expand on everything I can think of having the same root, for example:
sym = symptom syms = symptoms symc = symptomatic symly = symptomatology symy = sympathy symz =sympathize
I do this with all my expansions. If I put in a new word, I try to figure out what the most practical root would be and then add all the variations I can think of at the same time.
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Post by mabs on Aug 18, 2004 14:06:56 GMT -5
thanks for all the help
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2004 14:19:22 GMT -5
I usually have a root and then expand on everything I can think of having the same root . . . Thank you, Diana. Excellent working through of the variations on a single word. I appreciate your posting it.
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Post by emslavey on Nov 6, 2004 19:25:03 GMT -5
I use "syy" for symptomatology...very easy.
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