provmateriel
English translation: tubes and sampling material
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| Swedish to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Instruments / laboratory | ||||
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|  Selected response from: Sven Petersson Sweden Local time: 08:25 | |||
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| 4 +2 | tubes and sampling material |
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| 4 | test tubes |
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| 3 | vessel |
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| 2 | receptacle |
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| 1 | recipient |
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7 mins confidence: 
| provmateriel, test equipment, laboratory equipment vessel Explanation: This term is often used in lab test descriptions to indicate the object containing or holding the samples. |
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recipient Explanation: Not being a speaker of Swedish, I am simlply basing my suggestion on your own analysis of the meaning. In a testing or laboratory situation, 'recipient' is the sort of word often used in a fairly formal, technical register to mean 'some unspecified kind of container' (which might be of any size, material, shape, etc.) Depending on the specific context, you might or might not be able to add 'test' or 'sample', for example, but I think the term is more often used on its own, simply qualified by the surrounding text: "The sample is placed in a suitable recipient and heated to 300°C" etc. etc. |
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receptacle Explanation: Provmaterial is essence is testing equipment, but given your explanation, maybe this will work. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/te/test tube.html Receptacle Beaker, flask, Erlenmeyer flask, Florence flask, round-bottom flask, graduated cylinder, test tube, culture tube, pipette, Pasteur pipette, disposable pipette, syringe, vial, carboy, vacuum flask, Petri dish, microtiter tray, centrifuge tube |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2tubes and sampling material Explanation: I suspect "provmaterial" is a short form of "provtagningsmaterial", and my proffered translation is based on ths assumption. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2009-12-20 23:10:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Please see: http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp;jsessionid=ahl-WlN6zyihsuNv... and http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=29392&a=80287&l=sv |
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