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  • From: Colin Muller <colin@d...>
  • To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:36:18 +0800

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:18:22PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> 	He has Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease.
> 	He has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
> 	He has subacute spongiform encephalopathy.
> 
> These three terms may be substituted for one another in any context.

The first two, perhaps (one could perhaps arrive at a contorted
exception), but:

"Subacute spongiform encephalopathy, named after ... the name of which
gives a concise description ..."
"Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, named after ... the name of which
illustrates the common practice in the medical research world of ..."

Colin

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