Mar 25, 2008 09:31
16 yrs ago
Danish term
Denmark
the message, not just the words
Native in: English (Variant: UK) 
Works in: Danish to English, English
(patientens) tarme er lidt frem og tilbage
Danish to English
Medical
Medical (general)
digestion: remark from a patient's journal
har let ved at få blå mærker og (patientens) ... tarme er lidt frem og tilbage
Does this mean bowel movements are a little irregular at times?
I don't have a lot of useful context, but this is a remark in a journal entry, one in a long series about a patient with an injury that is not related to digestion. It is a more or less isolated remark in the history about general health among comments about muscle tone etc. - which are what this appointment is really about.
In the earlier physical examinations there are the normal comments about the stomach:
adipøst, uømt, normale tarmlyde, i.a.
The patient is now consulting a new specialist who uses a mixture of conventional Latin and almost colloquial expressions - which are easy enough to understand apart from this one.
My question is: what exactly is it a polite expression for?
Does this mean bowel movements are a little irregular at times?
I don't have a lot of useful context, but this is a remark in a journal entry, one in a long series about a patient with an injury that is not related to digestion. It is a more or less isolated remark in the history about general health among comments about muscle tone etc. - which are what this appointment is really about.
In the earlier physical examinations there are the normal comments about the stomach:
adipøst, uømt, normale tarmlyde, i.a.
The patient is now consulting a new specialist who uses a mixture of conventional Latin and almost colloquial expressions - which are easy enough to understand apart from this one.
My question is: what exactly is it a polite expression for?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | irregular bowel movements // (the patients) intestines are variable |
Suzanne Blangsted (X)
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| 3 | his/her bowel movements are sometimes good, sometimes not so good |
valhalla55
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Proposed translations
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irregular bowel movements // (the patients) intestines are variable
if you want to use the word "tarme" then you need intestines, but it is actually irregular bowel mvements.
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Comment: "Thanks! I thought it had to be that.
It just might have been something to do with a syndrome in the background, but there is no further mention of intestines in all the other notes, just i.a."
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his/her bowel movements are sometimes good, sometimes not so good
maybe
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