irregularidades discretas de calibre

English translation: mild luminal irregularities/mild irregularities of the vessel diameter

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Portuguese term or phrase:irregularidades discretas de calibre
English translation:mild luminal irregularities/mild irregularities of the vessel diameter
Entered by: liz askew

16:54 Feb 14, 2013
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical: Health Care / Coronary Angiography
Portuguese term or phrase: irregularidades discretas de calibre
Primeiro ramo diagonal com trajeto, distribuição, e fluxo normais e irregularidades discretas de calibre.
Isabella Kenfield
United States
Local time: 11:42
mild luminal irregularities/mild irregularities of the vessel diameter
Explanation:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/calibre

• 2the internal diameter or bore of a gun barrel: [in combination]: a small-calibre revolver
• the diameter of a bullet, shell, or rocket.
• ***the diameter of a body of circular section, such as a tube, blood vessel***, or fibre: the reduction in calibre of arterial vessels

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=discre...
discrete = slight
Learning to Code with CPT/HCPCS 2011 - Google Books Result
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0781781205
Thomas J Falen, Alice Noblin, Brandy G Ziesemer - 2010 - Medical
The right coronary artery is a medium caliber vessel. Appears to have mildatherosclerosis/lumen irregularities.The right coronary artery gives rise to the ...
http://www.cardiologysite.com/html/grading_stenoses.html


I am suggesting this because I am unable to find anything on any reliable English language medical site with "mild irregularities of caliber/calibre"
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4 +2mild luminal irregularities/mild irregularities of the vessel diameter
liz askew
4minor irregularities
Ellen Kraus


  

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mild luminal irregularities/mild irregularities of the vessel diameter


Explanation:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/calibre

• 2the internal diameter or bore of a gun barrel: [in combination]: a small-calibre revolver
• the diameter of a bullet, shell, or rocket.
• ***the diameter of a body of circular section, such as a tube, blood vessel***, or fibre: the reduction in calibre of arterial vessels

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=discre...
discrete = slight
Learning to Code with CPT/HCPCS 2011 - Google Books Result
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0781781205
Thomas J Falen, Alice Noblin, Brandy G Ziesemer - 2010 - Medical
The right coronary artery is a medium caliber vessel. Appears to have mildatherosclerosis/lumen irregularities.The right coronary artery gives rise to the ...
http://www.cardiologysite.com/html/grading_stenoses.html


I am suggesting this because I am unable to find anything on any reliable English language medical site with "mild irregularities of caliber/calibre"

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:42
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Asker: Liz, thank you!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  João Magalhães
3 mins
  -> Obrigada!

agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: 'Minor' or 'slight' may be better, but you captured the difficult part of the question.
3 hrs
  -> You are right Muriel, don't know why I put "mild"! thank you!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
minor irregularities


Explanation:

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/407491_2 - Diese Seite übersetzen
The catheters easily engaged the left and right coronary arteries individually without any ... To our surprise, the angiogram showed only minor irregularities in the ...


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Diagnostic coronary angiography revealed a 50% plaque in the distal circumflex coronary artery and diffuse minor irregularities in the remaining epicardial vessels (Figure 1). However, there was no flow-limiting epicardial stenosis.

Ellen Kraus
Austria
Local time: 17:42
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 12
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