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Truncation

You can search for several related words in one go by substituting characters in your term with wildcard characters.

There are 2 wildcard characters:

* will match any number of characters

? will match a single character

To search for any words beginning with a particular stem, add the wildcard character * at the end.

Chemother* to match chemotherapy and chemotherapeutic

You can use the wildcard in the middle to stand for one or more characters.

estr*ol to match estriol and estradiol

You can replace a single character in the search term by using the wildcard character ?

wom?n to match woman and women

Parkinson? to match Parkinsons but not Parkinsonian

Notes:

If you search using a stem with fewer than 3 characters or the truncated term matches more than 10 terms, you will be prompted to lengthen the stem.