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Sentence #19410

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Shiawase Shiawase June 1, 2011 June 1, 2011 at 12:14:32 AM UTC link Permalink

--responding to @needs native check--
another medical term that sounds strange anywhere outside a medical text. If this sentence is kept I suggest otitus media is placed in quotes or italicised as a latin medical term.

halfb1t halfb1t November 24, 2012 November 24, 2012 at 10:06:31 AM UTC link Permalink

For sure most folks would say "ear infection"; but physicians' English is still English. Standard English italicizes foreign words and phrases and their abbreviations (although the practice of italicizing "i.e." and "e.g." seems to be fading), but not, I think, terms of art.

In the long run, unusual contributions should reveal themselves as unusual. Every alternative to leaving them alone is probably a can of worms.

Contributors themselves making changes in response to comments is fine.

Certainly this sentence fits the model of "I had appendicitis last year."

OK.

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I had otitis media last year.

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