The phrase "a more general term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing terminology or concepts that encompass a broader category or idea than a specific term.
Example: "In this context, 'vehicle' is a more general term that includes cars, trucks, and motorcycles."
Alternatives: "a broader term" or "a less specific term".
"Incendiary" communicates the idea of something explosively provocative, while "controversial" is a more general term for something that generates disagreement.
Both phrases use commerce as the suffix; electronic, the source for the e prefix, is a more general term than mobile and may subsume it.
A more general term, forward presence, includes such noncombat overseas military activities as access agreements, foreign military assistance, joint training exercises, and intelligence sharing.
It seems the word "hybrid" has evolved into two meanings -- one that describes a powertrain using both internal combustion and electric power for more efficiency, and the other a more general term referring to a car perceived as earth-friendly.
Psychopathy isn't identified as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association's canon; instead, a more general term, "antisocial personality disorder," known as A.P.D., covers the condition.
The name chaparral is applied primarily to the coastal and inland mountain vegetation of southwestern North America; sometimes it takes the place of a more general term, Mediterranean vegetation, which denotes areas of similar vegetation around the Mediterranean Sea, at the southern tip of Africa, in southwestern Australia, and in central South America.
GO is an ongoing project, and the assignment of terms to proteins can be subjective: for example, some proteins are annotated with a more-general term higher in the GO hierarchy, whereas others are annotated with lower-level, more-specific terms.
For example, at a depth of 5 in the biological process GO, the term "regulation of sister chromatid cohesion" (GO 0007063) with a single indirect gene product annotation appears alongside a much more general term "cellular protein metabolism" (GO 0044267), which has 1381 annotations.
For example, the LMR problem list dictionary contains "thyroid cancer", but does not allow for further specification of the type (papillary, follicular, medullary, etc).. Some users expressed uncertainty as to whether it was better to put a coded but more general term on the list, or an uncoded but more specific term.
Aortitis is a subtype of the more general term "vasculitis", an inflammatory condition of infectious or noninfectious origin involving the vessel wall.
In my family law circle, we refer to someone with a narcissistic personality disorder as "an NPD" (or the more general term "HCP" -- which stands for "high conflict person").
