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Dec 29, 2018 06:25
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Italian term
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s/m (?)
Italian to English
Medical
Medical (general)
intermittent claudication
This is from a description of a patient's intermittent claudication symptoms. I'm not sure if this actually reads s/m or slm or sIm ... the copy is blurred here.
I understand that they're describing how far the patient can walk without pain (100 meters in this case), but can't make out what the term is and what it stands for:
"... dolore improvviso a ridosso del polpaccio Sx che si accentua con il movimento (s/m 100 mt).
What are the real letters here, and how do we translate this?
Thanks for your help.
Wishing everyone a great New Year.
I understand that they're describing how far the patient can walk without pain (100 meters in this case), but can't make out what the term is and what it stands for:
"... dolore improvviso a ridosso del polpaccio Sx che si accentua con il movimento (s/m 100 mt).
What are the real letters here, and how do we translate this?
Thanks for your help.
Wishing everyone a great New Year.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | Walking range |
Ellen Kraus
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| 3 | spostamento massimo |
Natalia Chernishova
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Proposed translations
1 day 2 hrs
Ellen Kraus
Austria
Austria
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Walking range
lwould suggest tentatively
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Shera Lyn Parpia
: what's the basis for this?
3 hrs
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The number of metres i.e. the distance the patient with pavk is able to cover without pain.
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Comment: "thank you, Ellen. I think this is the correct meaning, although we still don't know what the letters stand for."
2 hrs
Natalia Chernishova
Native in Italian
&
English
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#Health#Marketing#Literature#Sciences
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, Spanish (Variant: Latin American) , Italian (Variant: Standard-Italy)
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spostamento massimo
it seems one of those abbreviations commonly used by physiotherapists, or other such professional.
It is a bit of a guess, however it seems that 'spostamento massimo' makes sense in this context.
It is a bit of a guess, however it seems that 'spostamento massimo' makes sense in this context.
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Discussion
First, I was just mentioning the 'sul livello del mare' finding but I don't think that it would fit in this context and given the sentence I posted.
Second, it's not a 'd' in the middle. The second instance of this in a later report clearly shows a vertical line between the other two letters; my best guess now is that it's an 'l' (as in albero).
IIa Malattia compensata: distanza di marcia > 100 metri
IIb Malattia scompensata: distanza di marcia < 100 metri
Happy New Year!
Good guess, thanks, but now I think it's not s/m because it looks like one of the two above in a later report about the same patient.
One possible meaning of s.l.m. I've found while trying to figure out this one is "sul livello del mare" by the way.