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Offline Brinestone

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Drug Drug Interactions
« on: July 01, 2005, 11:15:36 AM »
Drug/drug interactions, drug–drug interactions, or something else?

I hate the construction to begin with, but I'm in a position where I can't write around it. The original uses the slash, which I'm sure is wrong. But what's right?
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Drug Drug Interactions
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2005, 11:35:11 AM »
I'm not sure. Chicago doesn't seem to cover stuff like this. But "drug-drug" (with a hyphen) is most common in Google search results.

Why do you need the second "drug," anyway? If it's an interaction, then there's already an implication that there's more than one.

Edit: Nevermind. I guess there are also things like drug-food interactions.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2005, 11:35:58 AM by Jon Boy »
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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2005, 10:26:45 AM »
*votes for drug-drug interactions, mostly because that's what she's seen in chemical journals*
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2005, 05:06:35 PM »
If someone were to make this into a computer game, I would readily give it a shot. :)
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