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contraction

The shortening of two words into one, where an apostrophe is used in place of the omitted letter or letters (I'm, aren't); or the abbreviation of a word to its first and last letters (Mr, St for ‘mister’, ‘street’, ‘saint’).

The use of contractions in written English (other than for dialogue) usually indicates a colloquial or familiar style.



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employed a multiple-classifier architecture composed of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) and Learning Vector Quantization (LMQ) to classify premature ventricular contraction (PVC) beats and the non-PVC beats [1].
Taxanes: Of the taxanes, the highest incidence of cardiotoxicity is associated with paclitaxel, which has been reported to cause sinus bradycardia, heart block, and premature ventricular contractions.
Twelve-lead electrocardiogram (QTc range 395-405 ms) showed frequent premature ventricular contractions with left bundle branch block morphology and inferior axis (Fig.
 
 
 
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