Normally bilaterally

example sentence: “Normal appearance of the adrenal glands bilaterally.”


The “appearance” of a structure is all we have to observe, and is implicit in the description of any finding. Stating it doesn’t add information for the reader. Removing “appearance” leaves: Normal adrenal glands bilaterally.

Since we are using the plural form “glands”, and since the normal condition is for bilateral adrenal glands,  we don’t need to say “bilaterally”.

suggested rewrite: “Normal adrenal glands.”

The example sentence has Flesch-Kincaid reading ease score of 6.3 and grade-level 14.1. The edited version has reading ease 34.6 and grade-level 9.2.