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For the treatment of patients with m disease, especially for the treatment of patients with liver cancer, drug X is expected to be an important substitute for drug Y.

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@oristarA,

For the treatment of patients with m disease, especially liver cancer, X is expected to be an important substitute for Y.

Q. What is "m disease"? Did you mean "malignant"?

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

For the treatment of patients with m disease, especially liver cancer, X is expected to be an important substitute for Y.

Q. What is "m disease"? Did you mean "malignant"?

Thank you Contrex.

Both disease names are actually complicated, so I edited it into non-existent, hogwash names.

PS. I don't know how to make the following terser:

The drug tolerance of drug A is better than that of drug B, however.

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@oristarA,

'Terser' is incorrect. You should say 'shorter' or 'clearer.'

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

'Terser' is incorrect. You should say 'shorter' or 'clearer.'

Cycloptichorn

Thanks
Well, make it clearer:

The drug tolerance of drug A is better than that of drug B, however.

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@oristarA,

Yes, that's perfectly correct.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Yes, that's perfectly correct.

Cycloptichorn

Cool.
But would you like to edit the following?

The drug tolerance of drug A is better than that of drug B, however.

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@oristarA,

No editing necessary, it's grammatically correct.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

No editing necessary, it's grammatically correct.

Cycloptichorn

We know it's grammatically correct; he is asking how to make it shorter and less repetitive, while preserving grammatical correctness.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

'Terser' is incorrect. You should say 'shorter' or 'clearer.'

Cycloptichorn

You have made two unhelpful posts in this thread now.

Terse has two slightly different meanings, the most common one listed below is exactly correct.

terse

1. neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
2. abruptly concise; curt; brusque.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

But would you like to edit the following?

The drug tolerance of drug A is better than that of drug B, however.

Geewhizepam is better tolerated than Ohgodepam, however.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

oristarA wrote:

But would you like to edit the following?

The drug tolerance of drug A is better than that of drug B, however.

Geewhizepam is better tolerated than Ohgodepam, however.

Excellent!
Thank you.

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