@Mitch Injecting a little liquid just under the skin makes a wheal, like a dime-sized blister, flat as one too. My PCM gave me a test for something using that method a few years ago, so maybe they still do that. I dunno.
Over time I developed this rule where if a title or a proper name is followed by a common noun that represents the class of the entity I am referring to, then I use the definite article. In Example 1, the title of a publication in the first sentence is followed by the noun "whitepaper", thus the ...
@user8718165 I think in that particular example, people treat "Microsoft Corp" as a proper noun, and a single unit, rather that a noun phrase with a common noun as head.
@Jasper The link associated with the picture explains. They inject saline just under the skin in the forehead which forms a large weal (basically a huge blister). But while they're slowly injecting, they press with their finger at the center to give it that shape. It goes away after a few hours (I think and hope). I guess it's not as bad as a face tatto because it goes away. But still, eww.
@Jasper PCM: primary care manager; usually a physician assistant (PA) except there is no actual physician to assist; most likely someone who became a 'PA' because his practice sheep or goat didn't die (locally, that is).
I have a lot of table cells in my clinical trial report table in which there is only one record: NCS abnormality - I wonder if I translated it well. NCS means "Not Clinically Significant". I thought of phrasing it as "Abnormality (NCS)" but that would require two additional characters, bloating the table.
"Not Clinically Significant abnormality" is a bit un-English.
But however much I scratched my dimples of Venus, I could not come up with a better concise wording.
:5001367 There should be a word for that... For example, take chromosome abnormalities. Down syndrome is considered "common" ("by far the most common chromosomal abnormality") when compared with Edwards syndrome (rare, more so in live births). We had a little girl on our ward with the latter. I remembered her name, so I was able to find it on a lifespan report. She lived 9.3 years. It's very rare. Quote source: Scitable by NatureEducation.
So, is NCS and extremely rare basically the same thing in this case? I don't know. It's a toughie, I think.
@Færd Hmm, seems this guy and a Slovenian Stanley Kubrick had something called a debate
And they're both wackos, balloons filled with hyperbole and fueled by the greatest achievement of the 21st century: Social media
At least a shallow search about the debate revealed that much
I apologize in advance to intellectual people who find potential strength in some of their valid arguments, if they make any.
End of story, I guess. To me, these people seem like they always have ways of intricately explaining what's wrong with the society or capitalism or Marxism or whatever-the-hellism but no one has the solutions.
"It's easier to be critical than correct."
Although ironically that's what I'm doing right now.
But I don't have a PhD in psychology so it's not like it's MY job to be correct.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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