Decaimento

21:04 Sep 1, 2012

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Instruments

Portuguese term or phrase: Decaimento

This is from a Brazilian calibration certificate for an electrocardiograph.

There is a table called “Calibration Results” (“Resultados da Calibração”). Under the heading “Characteristic” (“Característica”), there are 4 items: Ganho 1, Ganho 2, Decaimento and Velocidade. Ganho 1 and 2 are Gain 1 and 2, and Velocidade is Speed, but I don’t know what “Decaimento” is. The unit “Decaimento” is expressed in is “mV”, and the Standard Value is ≥0.25. The other information given in the table for these characteristics is Expected Value, Pre-Calibration Reading, Post Calibration Reading, Uncertainty of the Reading, Deviation and Approval.

I don’t know what to put here. I don’t think “Decay” is the right word for an ECG. Loss, Drop, Decline, Decrease – something like one of these might work, but I can’t find any evidence on the Internet for these terms used in this context. Does anyone know what would be the right word here?

Thank you very much.

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ramp down

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Decay

Roy vd Heijden

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ramp down

Explanation:
:) Technical term

Clauwolf
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Reference: Decay

Reference information:
See: http://www.rbeb.org.br/files/v27n4/v27n4a1.pdf

Roy vd Heijden
Belgium
Native speaker of:

Dutch

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