Did you mean you are a self-styled 'nitpicker', and not "knitpicker"? ...wink... 'Emergent' is well-established in medicine to mean exactly how it was used in

Did you mean you are a self-styled 'nitpicker', and not "knitpicker"? ...wink... 'Emergent' is well-established in medicine to mean exactly how it was used in the linked article. There is nothing 'trendy' about that usage (see link to 1914 Stedman's Medical Dictionary definition below).