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Biographical Date Format

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"The grading system is named after its inventor, Henry W. Meyerding (1884 - 1969), an American orthopaedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He proposed the classification in an article in 1932 ²."

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Number Spacing

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"The grading system is named after its inventor, Henry W. Meyerding (1884 - 1969), an American orthopaedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He proposed the classification in an article in 1932 ²."

Line 19:89 · In a number range, there should not be spaces around the hyphen ('1884 - 1969').

Acronyms

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"The grading system is named after its inventor, Henry W. Meyerding (1884 - 1969), an American orthopaedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He proposed the classification in an article in 1932 ²."

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Oxford Comma

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""high-grade": grades 3, 4 and 5"

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