What?
Posted By: Me on 2007-05-18
In Reply to: When are disorders capitalized? - WImom
Subject: What?
When are nouns capitalized? When they are proper nouns. You would capitalize Down syndrome, Raynaud disease, Parkinson disease, conditions that are named after a person. You would not capitalize a diagnosis that was made up of regular medical terms. My lab book has an appendix at the back with eponymic diseases and syndromes in it. A website would be WhoNamedIt. It's the same as whether you would capitalize the word "hospital" or whether you would capitalize "Mercy Hospital." It's a generic term versus a proper noun.
I think your school really let you down.
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