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The deficiency in vitamin c may result in small scar-like wound in part of the lip.
The deficiency in vitamin c may result in small scar-like wound in part of the lip.
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Unless you're talking about a particular deficiency, say, the one noted in a medical study, use the indeterminate article. Vitamins take capital letters, doubled adjectives that could be joined by "and" are separated by a comma. A small wound on the lip would necessarily affect only a part of the lip, so unless you know which part, "part" is redundant.
- Unless you're talking about a particular deficiency, say, the one noted in a medical study, use the indeterminate article.
- Vitamins take capital letters, doubled adjectives that could be joined by "and" are separated by a comma.
- A small wound on the lip would necessarily affect only a part of the lip, so unless you know which part, "part" is redundant.
- " A deficiency in vitamin C may result in a small, scar-like wound on the lip.
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Unless you're talking about a particular deficiency, say, the one noted in a medical study, use the indeterminate article. Vitamins take capital letters, doubled adjectives that could be joined by "and" are separated by a comma. A small wound on the lip would necessarily affect only a part of the lip, so unless you know which part, "part" is redundant. To avoid the sense that the wound is inter
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