Nov 4, 2016 16:58
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French term

lignée

French to English Medical Medical (general)
This is from a journal article about corticosteroid-induced psychiatric disorders (clinical specificities, incidence, risk factors and treatment).

This word "lignée" is causing me a bit of bother.

It appears in the following context:

Les symptômes d'alarme
Des symptômes d'alarme ont été pressentis: apparition de manifestations anxieuses et/ou dépressives, incluant le risque suicidaire ou de symptômes confusionnels discrets; aggravation des signes d'imprégnation de la lignée maniaque.

My basic understanding is that this means a worsening of mania symptoms but is there more to it than that?

Any ideas would be gratefully received on this grey Friday afternoon.
Proposed translations (English)
3 tendency
3 syndrome (or set of symptoms)

Proposed translations

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tendency

The dominance behavioral system and manic temperament Motivation ...
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.433.581&rep=rep1...pdf
by SL Johnson - ‎2012 - ‎Cited by 17 - ‎Related articles
for social dominance, self-ratings of power, tendencies toward power-oriented ... ***tendencies toward manic symptoms*** and high mood states (Lara et al., 2006 ...

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or even

mania mood pole


so

worsening signs/symptoms towards mania mood pole/swing

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p.s.

I think your own translation is best

symptoms of mania

see

http://www.em-consulte.com/en/module/displayarticle/article/...

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so

worsening symptoms of mania
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syndrome (or set of symptoms)

there are numerous examples of "lignée maniaque" or "lignée dépressive" in the literature where "lignée" is used to refer to the "set" of features which characterise each state. I think this could reasonably be rendered as "syndrome" in EN

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See for example
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933815...
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