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etelänviilto

English translation: anterior incision?

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Finnish term or phrase:etelänviilto
English translation:anterior incision?

22:30 Feb 28, 2006
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Finnish term or phrase: etelänviilto
etelänviilto, joka on eri kuin acetabulumin murtumaviilto

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Jonathan Widell
Canada
Local time: 02:19
inferior cut/incision
Explanation:
Can't find any occurrences of this term in the net, but I just suppose that 'etelä' could here refer to 'inferior'.

In this site http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/orthopaedic/123_... describing hip surgery, you find even a picture of the inferior cut.

In Finnish 'etelä' (south, southern) often refers to sth located below / at the bottom. 'Eteläviilto' can be some kind of physicians' (semi)jargon, used when more literal expressions (alapuolinen viilto, interiorinen viilto) are felt to be too clumsy.


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Note added at 2 days18 hrs (2006-03-03 17:12:21 GMT)
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Probably you are right in accepting that 'etelänviilto' is a misheard 'etuviilto'. On this site http://www.tekonivel.net/luentoturku.htm there are told that to date surgery techniques have been 'etuviilto' and 'takaviilto' (and a new technique is gaining ground).
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Timo Lehtilä
Finland
Local time: 09:19
Grading comment
Ei tässä muukaan auta. Pakko no jotain panna.
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inferior cut/incision


Explanation:
Can't find any occurrences of this term in the net, but I just suppose that 'etelä' could here refer to 'inferior'.

In this site http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/orthopaedic/123_... describing hip surgery, you find even a picture of the inferior cut.

In Finnish 'etelä' (south, southern) often refers to sth located below / at the bottom. 'Eteläviilto' can be some kind of physicians' (semi)jargon, used when more literal expressions (alapuolinen viilto, interiorinen viilto) are felt to be too clumsy.


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Note added at 2 days18 hrs (2006-03-03 17:12:21 GMT)
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Probably you are right in accepting that 'etelänviilto' is a misheard 'etuviilto'. On this site http://www.tekonivel.net/luentoturku.htm there are told that to date surgery techniques have been 'etuviilto' and 'takaviilto' (and a new technique is gaining ground).

Timo Lehtilä
Finland
Local time: 09:19
Native speaker of: Finnish
PRO pts in category: 26
Grading comment
Ei tässä muukaan auta. Pakko no jotain panna.
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