Lint Listing

Abbreviation forms the style guide fixes. The rest of that article is already covered by Latin.yml.

When using acronyms, we need to ensure that either they are very common (e.g. CT or MRI), or have been spelled out for the audience earlier in the article. This may be with the acronym as the main word, or in brackets, e.g. PRES (posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome) or Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM). The rule is pretty clever at working out compound words (e.g. encephalomyeltitis is the E and M in ADEM), but it isn't flawless (yet).

Radiopaedia favours the word 'and' over the ampersand, with a few exceptions the style guide names: commercial names, H&E staining, head & neck imaging, and references reproduced verbatim.

Check all colons and ensure that the next word does not start with a capital letter. There are exceptions including NB, roman numerals, valid acronyms and Proper nouns (e.g. a disease like Down syndrome) etc.

Radiopaedia favours the spelling 'disc' and its orthographic derivatives. Non-anatomical uses, such as computer disks, are left to the author.

An e.g. list gives selected examples rather than an exhaustive one, so it does not end with a conjunction. This is the one place the site departs from its own Oxford comma rule, which is why OxfordComma carries a matching exception.

Never use ellipsis...

Italics are only used in very specific places and should avoid outside those situations. They are used to describe Organisms, but not species and also to describe genes, but not the proteins they create. Organisms are added to a list of exceptions. Genes are assumed when the emphasied content is followed by the word gene

Radiopaedia prefers the non-possessive form of eponyms, e.g. Down syndrome rather than Down's syndrome. The trailing noun list is taken from the guide's own 'when not to use' categories, which also excludes the anatomical structures and fixed phrases it carves out.

Use the combined greater than and less than equal to signs.

Radiopaedia uses 'grey' site-wide and does not vary it by user preference. The SI unit of absorbed dose is spelt 'gray' after the physicist Louis Gray, so the unit, its multiples and the surname are excluded by the pattern itself rather than by exceptions, which do not match reliably past the matched word.

Heading capitalisation should be in sentence-style. The exception is allowed acronyms and acronyms in brackets.

Heterogenous and homogenous are real words meaning 'of foreign origin', but the guide advises always using the form with the extra 'e', which is right roughly 99% of the time. A warning rather than an error, since the other form is occasionally correct.

Looks for repetition.

The correct usage of latin terms should be adhered to.

List items should not start with a capital letter. There are some exceptions including acronyms, white-listed capitalisation and spinal level notation.

Looks for common negated words that mean other things, e.g. no minor instead of major.

A decimal takes a leading zero, and fractions are written with a slash rather than a glyph.

Using a comma to separate thousands in large numbers over 10,000 is helpful for readability.

Binomial names take an italicised capitalised genus and an italicised lowercase species. The abbreviations sp. and spp. are never italicised.

Sections left as 'content pending' are placeholders and should be completed.

A person's title and initials carry no full stops, and initials are spaced, e.g. Dr R F Player.

A prefix takes a hyphen only when it would otherwise duplicate a vowel, e.g. extra-axial but extramedullary. Applies the same principle as AdjectivalHyphens to the prefixes that recur in radiology. non- and anti- are excluded, since conventional usage hyphenates both.

Don't add words such as 'from' or 'between' to describe a range of numbers.

This rule looks for duplication of spinal level in the second reference of a spinal level, e.g. T2-T3.

We have very specific rules about when we use bold.

Eponymous unit names are lowercase when written in full, e.g. 3 tesla, and the litre takes a capital L. Anchored to a preceding number because every eponymous unit is also a surname, correctly capitalised when naming the person.