Abdominal pain can be caused by many conditions. However, the main causes are infection, abnormal growths, inflammation, obstruction (blockage), and intestinal disorders. Infections in the throat, intestines, and blood can cause bacteria to enter your digestive tract, resulting in abdominal pain.
Most obviously, a hyphen is used to indicate that a long word has been broken off at the end of a line: You should avoid such word splitting whenever possible. If it is unavoidable, try to split the word into two roughly equal parts, and make sure you split it at an obvious boundary. Do not write things like.
Noun. 1. hyphen-a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text. dash. punctuation mark, punctuation-the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.yphen. n. 1. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the punctuation mark (-), used to separate the parts of some compound words, to link the words of a phrase, and between syllables of a word split between two consecutive lines of writing or printing. vb.