Step 8. Truncate if desired

8.  Consider truncation (*).

If your search contains multiple words that begin with the same word trunk.  Consider replacing all with the trunk followed by an asterisk.

Without truncation, the omacetaxine search is as shown below:

(Omacetaxine  OR 26833-87-4 OR Ceflatonin OR CGX-635 OR CGX635 OR “CGX 635” OR HHT OR Homoharringtonine OR NSC-141633 OR NSC141633 OR “NSC 141633” OR omacetaxina  OR Omacetaxini  OR Chuan-Shan-Ning OR Fu-Er OR Gao-Rui-Te OR Hua-Pu-Le OR Jin-Nuo-Xing OR Sai-Lan OR Wo-Ting OR Synribo)

Use of truncation can shorten the search.

omacetaxin*

–will retrieve —

omacetaxine, omacetaxina, omacetaxini

With truncation of omacetaxin*, the following search strategy is generated:

(Omacetaxin*  OR 26833-87-4 OR Ceflatonin OR CGX-635 OR CGX635 OR “CGX 635” OR HHT OR Homoharringtonine OR NSC-141633 OR NSC141633 OR “NSC 141633”  OR Chuan-Shan-Ning OR Fu-Er OR Gao-Rui-Te OR Hua-Pu-Le OR Jin-Nuo-Xing OR Sai-Lan OR Wo-Ting OR Synribo)