Sep 5, 2018 16:11
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Spanish term

contracción de tronco

Spanish to English Medical Medical (general)
Evento de contracción de tronco sin pérdida de conocimiento.

Es parte de un informe de EEG. Imagino que tronco será brainstem,, pero no encuentro que se use con contractions.

Es un favor para una amiga, yo no suelo traducir este tipo de textos al inglés, por lo que agradezco cualquier aporte.

¡Saludos!
Proposed translations (English)
3 contraction of trunk

Discussion

Helena Chavarria Sep 5, 2018:
@Elizabeth Me alegro que hayas podido encontrar la respuesta :-)
Elizabeth Ardans (asker) Sep 5, 2018:
Sí, acabo de hablar con mi amiga (que me pidió la traducción) y parece que sí, se refiere al tronco del cuerpo, tenías razón :) La verdad no acostumbro traducir estos textos tan técnicos al inglés y todo el resto del documento habla del cerebro, así que me entraron muchas dudas. Gracias!
Helena Chavarria Sep 5, 2018:
@Elizabeth El cerebro no tiene tejido muscular, lo cual significa que no puede contraerse. Entiendo que dudes de mi sugerencia pero a falta de más contexto, parece que hace referencia al tronco del cuerpo).
Elizabeth Ardans (asker) Sep 5, 2018:
Sí claro, pero no estoy segura de que "trunk" sea el término en este caso.
Tronco se refiere a esto creo: http://www.cochlea.eu/es/cerebro-auditivo/tronco-cerebral
Tal vez sea raro el uso de "contracción", por eso quisiera escuchar sugerencias, en lo posible de hablantes nativos de inglés especializados en medicina. Igual te agradezco tus aportes, lo voy a analizar.
Helena Chavarria Sep 5, 2018:
Although there are plenty of muscles in your face, scalp, and inside your head, the brain itself is not a muscle. Instead, the brain is one of the largest organs in the body and is essential for life itself and most of the voluntary and involuntary actions your body can do. It is also the center for thought, memory, and understanding.

https://www.top-health-today.com/general-health/is-the-brain...

El cerebro no se mueve.
Helena Chavarria Sep 5, 2018:
Luckily for us, the brain does not move around a whole lot when you shake your head. The brain is very much like a Jello jiggler that hasn't hardened properly yet. It is protected within the skull by some very touch connective tissue called the meninges.

So the meninges anchor the brain pretty well. They are assisted a little in this function by blood vessels and nerves leaving and entering the brain. So if you shake your head hard, yes, your brain will move a bit. If your head moves very fast very suddenly (as in a car accident) it is like this mass of Jello slid a bit and hit the wall of the skull.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-02/884706981.An.r....
Elizabeth Ardans (asker) Sep 5, 2018:
Para mí en este caso se refiere al tronco cerebral, no al tronco en sentido de torso.

Proposed translations

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contraction of trunk

Spasms typically involve symmetrical contraction of neck, trunk, and extremities, and last up to 5 seconds.

http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116284/Infantile spasm...


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Los pacientes están pálidos y caen lentamente al suelo. Pueden presentar taquicardia o bradicardia y diaforesis. Pueden producirse breves contracciones tónicas de los músculos de la cara, el tronco y las extremidades en aproximadamente un 50% de los pacientes con síncope.

https://www.aeped.es/sites/default/files/documentos/trastorn...

Hypsarrhythmia is the most common interictal EEG pattern associated with infantile spasms. The most common clinical description is a sudden, symmetric, tonic muscle contraction producing flexion/extension of the trunk and extremities, although a variety of movement patterns have been described.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

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Motor cortex
Seizures arising in or adjacent to the motor cortex appear simply as clonic jerking of the motor structures (muscle groups) innervated by the cortex involved (on the contralateral side). If the seizure spreads from the focus, the clinical seizure progresses to involve contiguous areas of the body (Figure 22-3). The progression appears as a march of activity over the body (and over the cortex; the Jacksonian march) from the upper extremity to the face, trunk, and lower limb. As with any partial seizure, it may subsequently generalize either via the corpus callosum or the rostral brain stem.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dons/part_3/chapter_22.html
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