Ss

English translation: No murmurs

21:52 Jan 17, 2020

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)

Spanish term or phrase: Ss

From a Costa Rican medical record:

ORL sin alteraciones.
RsCsRs, Ss, CsPs sin ruidos agregados, MV normal
Abdomen sin alteraciones.
.........

RsCsRs= rhythmic heart sounds
Ss= ?
CsPs= lung fields

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Local time: 20:21

English translation:No murmurs

Explanation:
Maybe. Ss = Sin soplos

previous question:
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/medical-genera...
Rs Cs Rs sin soplos
English translation: normal (regular) heart sounds, no murmurs

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Note added at 34 mins (2020-01-17 22:26:45 GMT)
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http://microinfectio.blogs.uv.es/blogs.microinfectio.uv.es › files › 2014/12 › itu
caso clínico - Microinfectio
Auscultación cardiaca: ruidos cardiacos regulares, sin soplos. –

https://www.elsevier.es/www.elsevier.es › es-revista-medicina-familia-semer...
Comunicación Comunicaciones orales | Medicina de Familia ...
Mar 5, 2016 - AC: Ruidos cardíacos regulares sin soplos.

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Note added at 45 mins (2020-01-17 22:37:47 GMT)
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At times it's hard to see the wood for the trees!

Selected response from:

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 03:21

Grading comment

Thanks Marie!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

Murmurs

Stephen D. Moore

simétricas

Neil Ashby

3 +1

systolic murmur

Thomas Walker

No murmurs

Marie Wilson

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

30 mins confidence:

No murmurs

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 03:21
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 479

Grading comment

Thanks Marie!

Notes to answerer

Asker: Of course! I was thinking that just "soplos" wouldn't make sense. "Sin" just didn't pop into my head. Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

disagree

Stephen D. Moore: Lowercase repetition such as this almost invariably indicates the plural..

3 hrs

-> In an ideal world, I agree Stephen. But it didn't seem likely to me in this context, and many texts have typos/irregular capitalisation, and this may even have started out as handwritten scrawl.

agree

Chema Nieto Castañón: En el contexto difícilmente puede significar otra cosa. Habitualmente expresado como s/s, S/S, ss, SS "Soplos", así sin otra especificación como sugiere Stephen, parece opción muchísimo más extraña que un simple error de capitalización

4 hrs

-> Muchas gracias, Chema :-) Es mejor guiarse por la lógica.

neutral

Neil Ashby: At every other point in the report the author has written "sin", so why not here? I think it means "simétricas".

14 hrs

-> Who knows, but it was written I imagine by a doctor, not a proofreader, and style and consistency might not be the main concern.

4 hrs confidence:

Murmurs

Explanation:
When a capitalized initial used as abbreviation is repeated in lower case in Spanish, it almost always means the plural. For example, Ee.U.u. = Estados Unidos, plural.

Stephen D. Moore
United States
Local time: 21:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 71

14 hrs confidence:

simétricas

Explanation:
As Chema states, it would be strange to say "murmurs" on the report, yet it doesn't include "no" or "sin" to indicate "no murmurs".

I think it means "simétricas".

See:
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/medical-cardio...

CsRsSs
carótidas rítmicas y simétricas
http://www.cosnautas.com/siglas/7888-csrsss

Neil Ashby
Spain
Local time: 03:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 354

1 day 2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

systolic murmur

Explanation:
I agree with Chema, that in English probably no one would write "murmurs" in a medical report.
One ambiguity in the ST: does "sin ruidos agregados" apply only to "CsPs", or to the whole series "RsCsRs, Ss, CsPs"? If to the series, then "Ss" on its own does not have to include the indication of the absence of it. We would then have "Ss sin ruidos agregados". In Beattie's book, "SS & "Ss" are listed as abbreviations of "Soplo sistólico", "Systolic murmur". He also has a listing for "S/S" & "s/s", which he equates to "Sin soplos", "with no audible murmurs", etc.

Thomas Walker
United States
Local time: 18:21
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

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