Can one use a hyphen to form 2 words with same prefix?

Question

Consider this part of a sentence: > [...] the development of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory > disorders. I'm wondering if it is acceptable to omit the "neuro" prefix before "inflammatory" and put a hyphen (-) before "degenerative" to indicate that the next word also begins with this prefix (this is to save space). Saving space is actually important as this is for a grant proposal with limited number of pages/words allowed. Therefore I want to know if this sentence is grammatically correct: > [...] the development of neuro-degenerative and inflammatory > disorders. I hope this is not a duplicate I did not know how to properly search for that situation.

Answer 1

I think it might be clearer if you rephrased that portion of that sentence to say something like "the development of degenerative and inflammatory brain disorders." Hope this helps!