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RE: [HAPS-L] Disease/Syndrome names
It never made sense to me to add the apostrophe since
Alzheimer, for example, apparently neither had the condition nor did he own
it. I believe the trend is away from the use of the
mark.
Google does not truncate when words are placed in quotes, and:
"Parkinson's disease" 1,760,000 hits
"Parkinson
disease" 3,690,000
"Alzheimer's
disease" 5,060,000
"Alzheimer
disease" 2,810,000
"Addison's disease" 625,000
"Addison
disease" 662,000
"Cushing's disease"
280,000
"Cushing disease" 306,000
"Huntington's disease" 1,040,000
" Huntington
disease"
1,020,000
I think whether or not
the apostrophe is retained is a function of the relative ease of the resulting
pronunciation, as subtle as the differences may be. In any event, formal rules
seem irrelevant.
On 2/14/07, Alan
Magid <amagid@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I
can rationalize part of that, Judith.
Google automatically truncates
nouns to the singular or non-possessive.
Therefore, after correcting, the
totals are
Net Parkinson = 2,150,000 - 1,630,000 = 520,000
Net
Parkinson's = 1,630,000
Mesh I think always truncates but doesn't
report both. Of course these are
very different data
bases.
-Alan
> From: Judith Gibber < jrg43@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007
13:03:09 -0500 (EST)
> To: < HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [HAPS-L]
Disease/Syndrome names
>
> Using the authority of Google, I'd say
that there's no rhyme or reason!
> For example:
>
>
Parkinson disease: 1,630,000 hits
> Parkinson's disease: 2,150,000
hits
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