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Apr 19, 2015 11:23
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English term

nerves were not conducted

English Medical Medical (general) EMG findings
From American EMG report:

"The left and right tibial motor nerves were not conducted." Next sentence: "The right and left sural sensory nerves did not conduct." And that's it.

What is the meaning of each sentence? And is there any difference between the passive and active in the quoted sentences?
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3 did not transmit impulses

Discussion

yolach (asker) Apr 19, 2015:
The final sentence is "All remaining nerves were within normal limits". No other relevant info.
magdadh Apr 19, 2015:
Yes, so the same two options I came up with... is there any other data provided for the left and right tibial motor nerves? If there is, this would exclude the 'not examined' option.
yolach (asker) Apr 19, 2015:
Yes, the phrases do seem odd, but if a specialist used them, they should be correct.
My first thought was: "nerves were not conducted" = were not examined at all; "nerves did not conduct" = did not transmit impulses.
But no idea if I'm right!
magdadh Apr 19, 2015:
two completely different options here: One is that it's a typo/error and indeed there is no difference. The other is that the tibial motor nerves were not examined.

Incidentally, both those phrases seem slightly odd to me - and googling either "nerves did not conduct" or "nerves were not conducted" results in very, very few hits. Sample EMG reports seem to contain nothing of this sort (though I only looked briefly).

http://www.medicaltranscriptionwordhelp.com/emg-transcriptio...

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did not transmit impulses

The cells in nervous tissue that generate and conduct impulses are called neurons or nerve cells. Neurons consist of a large cell body and elongated extensions called axons used for sending impulses, and usually dendrites for receiving impulses. Normally, nerves transmit impulses electrically in one direction, from the impulse-sending axon of one nerve cell to the impulse-receiving dendrites of the next nerve cell. The information the dendrites received can cause the cell body to generate a nerve impulse.

http://creationwiki.org/Nervous_system
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/muscle_contracti...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_conduction_study


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Note added at 14 mins (2015-04-19 11:37:46 GMT)
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http://www.ivyroses.com/HumanBody/Tissue/Tissue_Nervous-Tiss...

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neutral magdadh : this doesn't address the question
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