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weight bearing

Posted By: Michael Raymond Urbanski on 2006-08-01
In Reply to: is it weightbear or weight bear? - Andrea

Subject: weight bearing

how about non weight-bearing?  How would you appropriately punctuate/hyphenate that one?


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