Re: Rectal Exam help

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In a message dated 4/25/01 7:16:38 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

HollyBerry1295@... writes:

<< Everything looks good, but it is heme-negative. >>

What makes you say that? Heme can stand on its own.

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Holly, I just went to MT Desk to check it out. I noticed that they also list

guaiac-positive and guaiac-negative, with the hyphens. Guaiac and heme are both

words that can stand on their own, therefore they would only be written with the

hyphens if they are being used to describe another word, such as heme-negative

stool or guaiac-negative stool. However, when the phrase the rectal exam is

heme negative or guaiac negative, it would be written without the hyphen. Hope

this helps, Margaret

>>> 04/25/01 09:35PM >>>

<< Everything looks good, but it is heme-negative. >>

What makes you say that? Heme can stand on its own.

- >>

Well I suppose it probably depends on who you work for, but that is how I do

it. I go by a lot of the examples given on MT Desk. Go to MT Desk, click on

word list up in the right hand corner, then click on physical exam terms,

scroll down to rectal, and you will see there that they have it as

heme-negative.

Holly )

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