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Tallares

English translation: cuts/cutting -> sculpting

20:25 Aug 13, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Dentistry
Spanish term or phrase: Tallares
I'm seeing "Tallares Quirúrgico/Protetico" [sic] listed as a course title for a postgraduate dental specialization in prosthetics from a university in Argentina. If this were an older (hand-typed) transcript, I would suspect a typographical error and assume it should be "Talleres", but this is just over ten years ago, so I'm fairly sure it was imported directly from a database. I can't tell whether it refers to a surgical instrument or a prosthetic "part". Thank you in advance!
Gloria Cardona
United States
Local time: 20:24
English translation:cuts/cutting -> sculpting
Explanation:
I assume it refers to the cutting/sculpting/shaping of false teeth and other prostheses (tooth sculpting).


DRAE. tallar2
Del lat. vulg. taleāre 'cortar', 'rajar', y este der. del lat. talea 'brote, renuevo', 'tálea'.

1. tr. Dar forma o trabajar un material.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 02:24
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3 +1cuts/cutting -> sculpting
neilmac


  

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1 day 14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cuts/cutting -> sculpting


Explanation:
I assume it refers to the cutting/sculpting/shaping of false teeth and other prostheses (tooth sculpting).


DRAE. tallar2
Del lat. vulg. taleāre 'cortar', 'rajar', y este der. del lat. talea 'brote, renuevo', 'tálea'.

1. tr. Dar forma o trabajar un material.

Example sentence(s):
  • Tooth Sculpting. Do you have a chip in a front tooth?

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Provisional-fixed-dental-prosthesis-for-sculpting-the-ovate-pontic-site_fig6_277310103
    https://www.harleystreetdentalstudio.com/html/tooth-sculpting.html
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 02:24
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
Notes to answerer
Asker: Neilmac - thank you so much for your well-researched answer! It's very much along the lines of what I was thinking, although the client has since informed me that it was, indeed, a typo, and it was simply a series of workshops on surgical prothetics!


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agree  Thomas Walker: "Tallar" also shows up on diccionario.reverso.net
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