The phrase "a collective term of" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used when referring to a group or assembly of people, things, or ideas. For example, "The term 'business owners' is a collective term of all the people who own businesses."
The antiviral state is a collective term for limitation of viral replication, viral resistance of neighboring cells, and apoptosis of virally infected cells [ 16].
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a collective term for different patterns of arthritis of unknown cause in children. 1 All of them are defined as chronic arthritis lasting for more than six weeks in the absence of any known cause in a child aged under 16 years.
CRC is a collective term for cancers of the colon and rectum.
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a collective term for isomers of octadecadienoic acid with conjugated double-bond system.
Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a collective term for failure of normal enamel development, covering diverse clinical phenotypes that typically show Mendelian inheritance patterns.
They are home to a third of the world's whale and dolphin species, most of the UK's maerl, (a collective term for several species of calcified red seaweed, and an important marine habitat), Horsemussel (Modiolus modiolus) and seagrass beds, and distinctive species like the tall sea pen, Funiculina quadrangularis.
Hemicellulase, produced by a variety of microorganisms during fermentation, is a collective term for a group of enzymes including xylanase, lichenase and laminarinase, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of xylan, lichenin and laminarin, respectively [ 8].
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a collective term for a group of chronic intestinal inflammation states of the small and/or large intestines that encompasses ulcerative colitis (UC), a chronic mucosal and sub-mucosal inflammation of the large intestine and rectum, and Crohn's disease (CD), a chronic transmural inflammation of all/any part of the gastro-intestinal tract [ 1].
We model three different "return-to-work" scenarios (henceforth, we use "return-to-work" as a collective term for both "extension of working hours" and "take-up of work"): first, we assume a return-to-work period of two years, where individuals fall back to their old DI contracts after they receive the last payment tranche.
Nanotechnology is a collective term for a range of technologies, techniques and processes that involve the manipulation of matter at the nanoscale – a size range from approximately 1 nanometre to 100 nanometres [ 12].
