- etymology - What is the origin of stat? - English Language Usage . . .
The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly immediately" This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that needed to be taken immediately
- What is the origin of the suffixes statin and medin?
-stat is a very common suffix in medicine -Medin comes from the same rood as mediate, the Latin word mediāre (past participle: mediātus), to be in the middle, to intercede, + -in (it's also a peptide ) A hormone which intercedes (or up-regulates) something else can have the suffix -medin Somatomedins are hormones that promote cell growth in
- meaning - When should ‘state’ be capitalised? - English Language . . .
The use of the phrase 'administrative division of a country' in this question is quite problematic The United States never got divided into the states that constitute it; it's rather that the states chose to get united
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- grammaticality - When is it correct to use the -wise suffix . . .
One of the problems with the particular example user interface-wise is that while it needs to be parsed as (user interface)-wise, the most immediate parsing would probably be user (interface-wise), since hyphens typically bind tighter than spaces
- Alternative to beginning a sentence with this?
Almost any word or phrase can be overused, but naming a topic (agent, "character", or subject) in one sentence and then referencing it with this in the next sentence is an excellent way to help readers through a passage with clarity and ease
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- Is it acceptable to start a sentence with “however”?
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