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19:01 Jul 13, 2006 |
Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical (general) | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Edgar Potter United States Local time: 06:35 | ||||||
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4 +1 | damaged anterior wall |
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4 | lesion of the anterior face |
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lesion of the anterior face Explanation: "muro anterior" means the "anterior face", in this case, of the second lumbar vertebra (L2), look: Primary Stability of Anterior Interbody Fusion ImplantsThen L1/L2 and the L5/S1 vertebrae are fixed together with several screws ... a steel wire linked to the anterior face of the implant and displaced with a ... www.orl.mcgill.ca/projects/implants/implants.html Laparoscopic Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Technical Note... can be used to expose the anterior face of the vertebral bodies and disc space. ... Fabiani P, Argenson C: New possibilities in L2–L5 lumbar arthrodeses ... www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article86.html One example of the proposed translation: Mr K. R aged of 41, without known pathological background presented for 20 days a nodular lesion of the anterior face of the neck, 2 juxtaposed ulcerated ... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubM... |
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damaged anterior wall Explanation: Not much to go on, but a number of Google hits on anterior/posterior (abdominal) wall... "compromised" is sometimes used in this medical sense, but I would go with "damaged" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2006-07-13 22:13:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- rhandler suggests "face", which is more directly related to the vertebra, but "muro" sounds like a strange translation for "face"... maybe your context can help |
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