Legal Reference: Search Tips

between terms, requires both terms to appear in the search results. Example: doctor and malpractice

between terms, requires either term to appear in the search results. Example: doctor or physician

between terms, requires terms to appear in the same paragraph.

between terms, requires terms to appear within the same sentence.

between terms, requires a maximum number of words to appear between terms. (w/5, w/10)

at the end of a word, allows an unlimited string of letters to follow. Example: surg! retrieves surgical, surgery

within a word, allows any one letter to appear. Example wom*n retrieves women or woman.

compound! w/3 (drug OR pharmaceu!)

To perform LexisNexis, choose Legal > : ln-summary(compound) or ln-headnotes(adulteration)

Click the radio button in front of "Terms and Connectors."

Enter in the Additional Terms field:
title ( plessy w/2 ferguson )or name (RIEGEL and Medtronic ) or ln-headnotes(Medical Devices and Premarket Approval)

compound OR compounding

Find all the words made by adding letters to the end of it. For example, acqui! would find variations on the term acquire such as acquires, acquired, acquiring, and acquisition.

CAUTION: Use ! only on unique roots; fir! will find fired, firing, and fires, but will also find first, which you may not want

Replace a character anywhere in a word, except the first character. Use one asterisk for each character you want to replace.
Example: wom*n would find woman and women