Truncation
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Truncation
Health Source:Nursing/Academic offers the option to truncate a search. Truncation allows the researcher to do one search for multiple endings of a word. To do a truncation search you will use a truncation symbol to locate all forms of the word. In Health Source: Nursing/Academic the truncation symbol is an asterisk(*).
For example, the root word diabe* has different possible endings:
diabetes, diabetic, diabetid, diabetogenic, etc.
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