twisty

Spanish translation: tortuosa

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English term or phrase:twisty
Spanish translation: tortuosa
Entered by: karcsy

15:43 Nov 13, 2009
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Cardiology
English term or phrase: twisty
Findings during heart catheterization that make participation unsafe for you, in the opinion of the catheterization doctor (such as very twisty coronary arteries)

Por lo que entiendo, se trata de arterias muy torcidas o enroscadas, pero no sé cuál es el término que más se utiliza en estos casos. Gracias!
Elizabeth Ardans
Uruguay
Local time: 14:47
tortuosa
Explanation:
Varicose Veins - Medpedia This causes them to swell with the increased volume of blood and to become twisty ("tortuous"). In the veins at the surface (just underneath the skin) this ...
wiki.medpedia.com/Varicose_Veins - Cached - Similar

Aterosclerosis y enfermedad arterial coronaria - Google Books Result by Valentín Fuster, Russell Ross, Eric J. Topol - 1997 - Medical
No obstante, la cirugía para el transplante arterial o cardíaco es ... difícil en las arterias coronarias tortuosas y curvadas; c) de igual modo, ...
books.google.com.ph/books?isbn=8407001813...

[PDF] Complicaciones relacionadas con la angioplatia coronaria percutánea - [ Translate this page ]File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
aumenta notablemente el riesgo de rotura coronaria. Otros predictores de rotura coronaria son la presencia de una arteria coronaria tortuosa, ...
crf.medynet.com/contenido/2001/2/75-80.pdf - Similar
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karcsy
Local time: 01:47
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Creo que se usan las dos opciones, pero me quedo con esta. Muchas gracias a todos!
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karcsy
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tortuosa


Explanation:
Varicose Veins - Medpedia This causes them to swell with the increased volume of blood and to become twisty ("tortuous"). In the veins at the surface (just underneath the skin) this ...
wiki.medpedia.com/Varicose_Veins - Cached - Similar

Aterosclerosis y enfermedad arterial coronaria - Google Books Result by Valentín Fuster, Russell Ross, Eric J. Topol - 1997 - Medical
No obstante, la cirugía para el transplante arterial o cardíaco es ... difícil en las arterias coronarias tortuosas y curvadas; c) de igual modo, ...
books.google.com.ph/books?isbn=8407001813...

[PDF] Complicaciones relacionadas con la angioplatia coronaria percutánea - [ Translate this page ]File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
aumenta notablemente el riesgo de rotura coronaria. Otros predictores de rotura coronaria son la presencia de una arteria coronaria tortuosa, ...
crf.medynet.com/contenido/2001/2/75-80.pdf - Similar
by FN DEL - Related articles

karcsy
Local time: 01:47
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Creo que se usan las dos opciones, pero me quedo con esta. Muchas gracias a todos!

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sinuosas


Explanation:
arterias coronarias sinuosas

[PDF] ENDOPROTESIS INTRAVASCULAR FLEXIBLE.(ES2247270) - [ Translate this page ]File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
so, incluyendo las arterias coronarias sinuosas. Como puede verse en las figuras 4 y 5, la endo- prótesis intravascular del ejemplo alternativo es tam- ...
www.espatentes.com/pdf/2247270_t3.pdf

Walden - Google Books Result by Henry David Thoreau - 1921 - Biography & Autobiography - 310 pages
... se aparta de la masa original y por sí misma se constituye en un canal o arteria sinuosa dentro de aquélla, y en este reciente canal se observa un ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=9683651739...

ANGIOLOGÍA - Presentación - [ Translate this page ][ANGIOLOGÍA 1976;28:67-76] - Original - Fecha de publicación: 01/03/1976. La "arteria sinuosa" del colón, un signo angiográfico de importancia ...
www.revangiol.com/sec/busqueda.php?pag=24...titulo... - Cached - Similar

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