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Adjectival Hyphens

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"For biomedical 3D printing from DICOM files, DICOM files must undergo image post-processing including segmentation and then be turned into an appropriate file format for printing."

Line 3:87 · Only use medical adjectival hyphens where the letters at the end and start of the compound word are the same, e.g. post-transplant. In this case, don't use the hyphen: 'post-processing'.

EG List And

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"Standard triangle language (STL), is one of many file formats used for 3D printing and the most often used file format in biomedical 3D printing up to 2019, although many other file formats, e.g. OBJ, 3MF, or AMF, are less computationally expensive."

Line 1:219 · An e.g. list gives selected examples, so it should not end with 'and' or 'or': 'e.g. OBJ, 3MF, or'.

Acronyms

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"Standard triangle language (STL), is one of many file formats used for 3D printing and the most often used file format in biomedical 3D printing up to 2019, although many other file formats, e.g. OBJ, 3MF, or AMF, are less computationally expensive."

Line 1:224 · 'OBJ' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"Standard triangle language (STL), is one of many file formats used for 3D printing and the most often used file format in biomedical 3D printing up to 2019, although many other file formats, e.g. OBJ, 3MF, or AMF, are less computationally expensive."

Line 1:237 · 'AMF' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

Commas

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"Standard triangle language (STL), is one of many file formats used for 3D printing and the most often used file format in biomedical 3D printing up to 2019, although many other file formats, e.g. OBJ, 3MF, or AMF, are less computationally expensive."

Line 1:53 · More than 5 commas in a single sentence might make it more difficult to read.

"Many medical sources refer to STL as standard tesselation language ^1,2, and the format is indeed a tesselation of triangles to represent the surfaces of objects for printing. Stereolithography, an extremely popular form of 3D printing for which STL was developed, includes the letters S, T and L, which led some technology writers to use the term STL as if it were a file format that implied stereolithography as the only process it is used in, however, this is now incorrect."

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Oxford Comma

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"Many medical sources refer to STL as standard tesselation language ^1,2, and the format is indeed a tesselation of triangles to represent the surfaces of objects for printing. Stereolithography, an extremely popular form of 3D printing for which STL was developed, includes the letters S, T and L, which led some technology writers to use the term STL as if it were a file format that implied stereolithography as the only process it is used in, however, this is now incorrect."

Line 5:300 · Use the Oxford comma in 'S, T and L'.

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