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frattura biossea

English translation: two bone fracture (here tibia & fibula)

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Italian term or phrase:frattura biossea
English translation:two bone fracture (here tibia & fibula)
Entered by: Claudia Robles

21:00 Feb 21, 2011
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / discharge report
Italian term or phrase: frattura biossea
Hello

It is a discharge report where the patient has broken a leg. What it is not clear to me is if biossea means she broke 2 bones or the same bone in two parts:

the sentence: "cade sciando procurandosi la frattura biossea di gamba sx."

in another sentence we find:

"Frattura pluriframmentaria terzo medio distale tibia sinistra e prossimale di perone"

Thanks
Claudia Robles
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:48
fractures of the tibia and fibula
Explanation:
biossea = two bones

frattura pluriframmentaria = multiple fragment fracture

[PDF] 9 MULTIPLE FRAGMENTS Double Fractures Double Butterfly Fragments - [ Traduire cette page ]Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Afficher
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 9. MULTIPLE FRAGMENTS. 34. These are dealt with just as single simple fractures, each fracture being transfixed in turn. Security of ...
www.rushpin.com/Technic_files/chap9.pdf



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Frattura tibia e perone - [ Traduire cette page ]9 messages - 3 auteurs - Dernier message : 27 sept. 2010
Referto ospedaliero: (frattura pluriframmentaria biossea esposta 3° medio-distale gamba sx con perdite tessuto molle e osseo). in seguito ...
www.forumsalute.it/.../thrd_91745_frattura_tibia_e_perone_1...
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SJLD
Local time: 02:48
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4fractures of the tibia and fibula
SJLD
4 +2double fracture
Lirka


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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
double fracture


Explanation:
same bone, two fractures; hence more than 2 fragments

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/double fract...

Lirka
Austria
Local time: 02:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 572

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ShopForWords: I agree !
36 mins
  -> Thanks, for agreeing. Haven't really shopped for words in this case, have you?:):)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
3 hrs
neutral  Alexander Cormack (X): the text states it a tib/fib fracture, so sounds incredibly like two bones to me
8 hrs
agree  Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
9 hrs
disagree  SJLD: no it's not - see "frattura biossea dell'avambraccio" for example = # radius + ulna
9 hrs
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
fractures of the tibia and fibula


Explanation:
biossea = two bones

frattura pluriframmentaria = multiple fragment fracture

[PDF] 9 MULTIPLE FRAGMENTS Double Fractures Double Butterfly Fragments - [ Traduire cette page ]Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Afficher
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 9. MULTIPLE FRAGMENTS. 34. These are dealt with just as single simple fractures, each fracture being transfixed in turn. Security of ...
www.rushpin.com/Technic_files/chap9.pdf



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Note added at 10 hrs (2011-02-22 07:29:08 GMT)
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Frattura tibia e perone - [ Traduire cette page ]9 messages - 3 auteurs - Dernier message : 27 sept. 2010
Referto ospedaliero: (frattura pluriframmentaria biossea esposta 3° medio-distale gamba sx con perdite tessuto molle e osseo). in seguito ...
www.forumsalute.it/.../thrd_91745_frattura_tibia_e_perone_1...

SJLD
Local time: 02:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 1026
Grading comment
Thank you SJLD and everyone who contributed!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anne Schulz: The term "both bone fractures" seems to exist as well.
24 mins
  -> thanks Anne - yes it does, mainly for forearm fractures, but not very elegant to my ear
agree  Panagiotis Andrias (X)
2 hrs
  -> thanks Panagiotos :-)
agree  Alexander Cormack (X)
3 hrs
  -> thanks Alex :-)
agree  Rachel Fell
9 hrs
  -> thanks Rachel :-)
neutral  ARS54: ...certo, dopo ciò che è stato spiegato in discussion. Tuttavia il TO parla di "biossea", nn di "tibia e fibula" - http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&newwindow=1&q="two-bone fr... /...proprio xciò *nn c'è nel TO*, è sottinteso...
1 day 6 hrs
  -> and what are the two bones of the gamba, hmmmm?
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