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his body's waste products

Spanish translation: los desechos corporales

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English term or phrase:the body's waste products
Spanish translation:los desechos corporales
Entered by: Andrea Bullrich

01:35 Apr 10, 2002
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English term or phrase: his body's waste products
This will help keep your child from making negative associations with his body's waste products
Hardy Moreno
Local time: 16:43
desechos corporales, but...
Explanation:
Esto ayudará a su hijo a evitar asociaciones negativas con sus desechos corporales.

Desechos corporales is the "official" term (see for example http://www.lafacu.com/apuntes/medicina/cancer_colon/default.... but I would try something a little less technical... I think even "materia fecal" would sound better! The problem is, it's not only that. If you could lighten up your text a bit, you could say "con el producto de su cuerpo". But that's up to you and your client...

HTH
Andrea
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Andrea Bullrich
Local time: 18:43
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perfect, thanks
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4desechos corporales, but...
Andrea Bullrich
4 -1con sus excrecciones y orines.
MIGUEL JIMENEZ


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
con sus excrecciones y orines.


Explanation:
Un poco mas explicito en español... y es que tan elegante que queda en ingles.... excrecciones no esta demasido ordinario...

a ver que piensan los otros

MIGUEL JIMENEZ
Local time: 17:43
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

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disagree  OLMO: Se escribe (y se pronuncia) EXCRECIONES, no "excrecciones".
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desechos corporales, but...


Explanation:
Esto ayudará a su hijo a evitar asociaciones negativas con sus desechos corporales.

Desechos corporales is the "official" term (see for example http://www.lafacu.com/apuntes/medicina/cancer_colon/default.... but I would try something a little less technical... I think even "materia fecal" would sound better! The problem is, it's not only that. If you could lighten up your text a bit, you could say "con el producto de su cuerpo". But that's up to you and your client...

HTH
Andrea

Andrea Bullrich
Local time: 18:43
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 23
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