indicador de fenda

English translation: grooved director

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Portuguese term or phrase:indicador de fenda
English translation:grooved director
Entered by: Aoife Kennedy

08:40 Oct 14, 2005
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Medical: Instruments
Portuguese term or phrase: indicador de fenda
This is part of a clip used during end-to-end anastomosis of the alimentary canal.
Aoife Kennedy
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:05
grooved director
Explanation:
fenda: crack, groove, fissure, aperture, split.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary:

"grooved director; a grooved instrument used to guide the direction and depth of a surgical incision."


LAP cholecystectomy index:

"289 ENLARGE THE EPIGASTRIC OPENING
Push a slightly angled grooved director into the epigastric opening to protect the gallbladder. ie the grooves facing away from the gallbladder."
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Cidália Martins (X)
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3anoscope
Maria Luisa Duarte
2 +1grooved director
Cidália Martins (X)


  

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anoscope


Explanation:
anoscopy - test to look for fissures, fistulae, and hemorrhoids using a special instrument, called an anoscope, to look into the anus.




    Reference: http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/bleeding/
Maria Luisa Duarte
Spain
Local time: 08:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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grooved director


Explanation:
fenda: crack, groove, fissure, aperture, split.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary:

"grooved director; a grooved instrument used to guide the direction and depth of a surgical incision."


LAP cholecystectomy index:

"289 ENLARGE THE EPIGASTRIC OPENING
Push a slightly angled grooved director into the epigastric opening to protect the gallbladder. ie the grooves facing away from the gallbladder."


    Reference: http://mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEz...
    Reference: http://www.edu.rcsed.ac.uk/Lectures/lt11.htm
Cidália Martins (X)
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Sounds good to me, thank you :)

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