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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:35 am
No, actualy. Most of the newer medical dictionaries do not carrey the term child because it, by definition, encompases a human being thorugh out his/her life time.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:30 am
Sorry Pyro, but she's right. According to CancerWEB's online medical dictionary, Quote: child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is child, preschool. (12 Dec 199 cool
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:09 am
CancerWEB, and as you can see the definition is from 8 years ago. Alot of the dictionaries have changed since then
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:09 pm
Um, dictionaries don't change definitions very often. Especially not on something like the definition of when a person is what. That would be ridiculous; There are people still practicing medicine who were practicing medicine in 1998. A lot of people. What, do they get a memo that children are no longer children, but rather pre-pubescants?
And who cares if it's CancerWEB? We used dictionary.com before.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:12 pm
I.Am Um, dictionaries don't change definitions very often. Especially not on something like the definition of when a person is what. That would be ridiculous; There are people still practicing medicine who were practicing medicine in 1998. A lot of people. What, do they get a memo that children are no longer children, but rather pre-pubescants? And who cares if it's CancerWEB? We used dictionary.com before. Medical dictionaries. Not regular. *sigh* Always a debate wiht you, isn't it?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:36 pm
Pyrotechnic Oracle I.Am Um, dictionaries don't change definitions very often. Especially not on something like the definition of when a person is what. That would be ridiculous; There are people still practicing medicine who were practicing medicine in 1998. A lot of people. What, do they get a memo that children are no longer children, but rather pre-pubescants? And who cares if it's CancerWEB? We used dictionary.com before. Medical dictionaries. Not regular. *sigh* Always a debate wiht you, isn't it? ...o.O Look who's talking! You're the one insisting, against proof mind you, that child is not a medical term! Just because it's a medical dictionary does not mean it changes frequently. Again, that would be ridiculous, especially with such base terminology.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:49 pm
I never said it wasnt a medical term. I said it was a term that many modern medical dictionaries no longer use to desribe pre-pubescents and teenagers..
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:56 pm
Pyro well then of course the fetus isn't a child. Hell, no one is a child in medicine. Either way, it's silly to be nitpicking about this. Who cares?
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:18 pm
...who cares...?
Ummm...okay...
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:10 am
Ok, i'm unstickying this. I just made a thread that joins together both of our information threads to help reduce sticky clutter.
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