face ventral do saco dural

English translation: ventral face of the dural sac

20:28 Jan 26, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Portuguese term or phrase: face ventral do saco dural
phrase from CAT SCAN of a lumbar spine
Cristinan
United States
Local time: 11:22
English translation:ventral face of the dural sac
Explanation:
61,000 refs for "ventral face".

We had a discussion about this recently. 'Face' is not a calque in this context. It is a medical term. It is used in the technical sense of describing the sides of a solid geometric form, which is not the same as the surface. For example, in describing a cube such as a gambling di, the operative concept is the particular face, not the 'surface'. You speak about the face that has the 5 dots on it, not the surface.

The following examples are from medeical texts by English-speaking authors:

The question is, whether the face of the bone which is exposed is its outer (or dorsal) or its inner (or ventral) face. In the former case it must needs be ...
aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM3/Arche.html

ventral face of the nucleus lenticularis, and the various relations which ... external segment of the globus pallidus appears, the ventral face of the ...
brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/37/3-4/433.pdf

Cyclonephelium chabaca; length, 78 um; ventral face, interior ... Cyclonephelium distinctum; length, 68 um; ventral face; slide 1: Z 39; ...
www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/101_SR/.../sr101_correction.pdf

the ventral face of the median body {nib) between the posterior poles of the 2 nuclei. (n). The free ventral fiagella (us) execute part of a sinusoidal ...
jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/13/1/11.pdf

by Gary A. Polis - 1990 - Science - 587 pages
3.5D); ventral face of pedipalp chela distinctly flattened (owing to ... pedipalp patella with 2 ventral trichobothria; ventral face of pedipalp chela ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0804712492...

by TP Naidich - 1983 - Cited by 73 - Related articles
ventral face of placode. (figs. 1 and 2). The pia and arachnoid, in fact, represent ... sac, and like the dural sac, ends at the dorsal root entry ...
www.ajronline.org/cgi/reprint/140/6/1065.pdf

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Muriel Vasconcellos
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5 +2ventral face of the dural sac
Muriel Vasconcellos
4ventral surface of the dural sac
Luiza Modesto


  

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ventral surface of the dural sac


Explanation:
A possibility....

Right: Intradiscal view showing the ventral surface of the dural sac following the extraction of a sequestered disc fragment.


    Reference: http://www.spineuniverse.com/professional/research/neurologi...
Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Local time: 12:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 102
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ventral face of the dural sac


Explanation:
61,000 refs for "ventral face".

We had a discussion about this recently. 'Face' is not a calque in this context. It is a medical term. It is used in the technical sense of describing the sides of a solid geometric form, which is not the same as the surface. For example, in describing a cube such as a gambling di, the operative concept is the particular face, not the 'surface'. You speak about the face that has the 5 dots on it, not the surface.

The following examples are from medeical texts by English-speaking authors:

The question is, whether the face of the bone which is exposed is its outer (or dorsal) or its inner (or ventral) face. In the former case it must needs be ...
aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM3/Arche.html

ventral face of the nucleus lenticularis, and the various relations which ... external segment of the globus pallidus appears, the ventral face of the ...
brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/37/3-4/433.pdf

Cyclonephelium chabaca; length, 78 um; ventral face, interior ... Cyclonephelium distinctum; length, 68 um; ventral face; slide 1: Z 39; ...
www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/101_SR/.../sr101_correction.pdf

the ventral face of the median body {nib) between the posterior poles of the 2 nuclei. (n). The free ventral fiagella (us) execute part of a sinusoidal ...
jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/13/1/11.pdf

by Gary A. Polis - 1990 - Science - 587 pages
3.5D); ventral face of pedipalp chela distinctly flattened (owing to ... pedipalp patella with 2 ventral trichobothria; ventral face of pedipalp chela ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0804712492...

by TP Naidich - 1983 - Cited by 73 - Related articles
ventral face of placode. (figs. 1 and 2). The pia and arachnoid, in fact, represent ... sac, and like the dural sac, ends at the dorsal root entry ...
www.ajronline.org/cgi/reprint/140/6/1065.pdf



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 08:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 581
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