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Tagged with single-word-requests british-english
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Single word request: cancer patients' prognosis is bad (serious)
I, a non-native English speaker, am writing an academic summary in medicine and I am trying to find a word for describing that cancer patients prognosis is bad. However, "bad" isn't an ...
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A better word than 'cathouse' for an outside shelter for 1 cat
Most of us who have gardens* and are fond of nature and animals have outside shelters for them...
birdhouse
dog house
green house
cat house?
'Cathouse' seems off to many Americans because of the ...
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Single word request: of/at that phase/time/period/care/management [duplicate]
I am writing a study aim and needs to be really concise. For background, "post-acute care" is the next/second step care in these patients' management. In other words, their care/management ...
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Synonym of "less formal"
As casual conversation simply means an idle chatter, I wanted to know of a word which means a "formal talk". Not completely formal, but rather a word for a conversation where people talk ...
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Single word request: something does not disconfirm the superiority of the most widely used practice [duplicate]
I analysed different nonoperative management practices and all of them showed worse outcomes than surgery.
The sentence I am writing:
None of the nonoperative management practices disconfirms the ...
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Single word request: practice based on non-strict criteria
Context:
Clinical decision making is highly varying, as there are no strict criteria between operative and nonoperative management.
How to say this with one academically suitable word?
Clinical ...
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Missing data: not registered vs not available
I have a scientific paper table that has a few missing values. Values are missing as they were not recorded (written by a doctor) on patients' medical records. Should I address these values as "...
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Single word to express "all round support"
If somebody helped an author in many topics, how to express this with sincere gratitude?
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It is a genuine pleasure to express my sincere gratitude and appreciations to people supporting me ...
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Single word request: a non-changing temporal trend [closed]
Is there a word for describing a non-changing temporal trend? Stasis?
E.g. expenditure on health care did not change between 2000-2020.
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Word request: different-level factors?
Let's suppose that clinical care is poor due to numerous reasons: policy-making, insufficient resources, specialists, education, non-use of standards etc.
How to say this in one word that describes ...
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How to say in a compact way: an increase of something is due to decrease in something else
I am examining temporal trends in the sale numbers of apples, pears and bananas. And I found a significant 5 percentage point increase for apples and a significant 5 percentage point decrease for ...
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Choosing prepositions for writing between and within region disparities
We are working on an methodology, allowing to detect disparities between the regions and within/inside the regions. For example:
There is a two-fold difference in salary between region A and B -
this ...
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Olden version of "psychopath"
Apparently, the term "psychopath" was coined in 1888, and at that point, it might not have even been used by the laypeople. So, I*m wondering about a word used for people that display ...
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What is the British English equivalent for "homebody"?
A homebody is, simply put, a person who likes staying at home more than going out.
The Oxford Dictionary tags the word as "informal North American", while the Cambridge Dictionary tags it as ...
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BE term for a historical type of outlaw?
An old-fashioned punishment consisted of depriving an individual of the benefit and protection of the law.
Does British English have a more explicit term for such an indiviudal than "outlaw"?...
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