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rayon

English translation: ray

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French term or phrase:rayon
English translation:ray
Entered by: Diana Chemparathy

09:00 May 3, 2009
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
French term or phrase: rayon
"...amputation de la premiere phalange et des deuxiemes et troisieme phalanges du quatrieme rayon du pied droit" thank you.
Diana Chemparathy
United States
Local time: 05:22
ray
Explanation:
fourth ray of the right foot
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SJLD
Local time: 14:22
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thank you
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3ray
SJLD
5 +3fourth ray of the right foot
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5Ray Of The Foot
Frederic Lievre
5(fourth) toe
Michael Barnett
4 -1bone
margaret caulfield
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ray
Marilyn Amouyal

  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
rayon [here]
bone


Explanation:
I.A.T.E.

margaret caulfield
Local time: 14:22
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  :::::::::: (X): No; a ray of the foot is much more than just 'bone' (which bone ? !) eg. the first ray of the foot defined is the hard and soft tissues of the first metatarsal, the sesamoids, and the phalanges of the great toe
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ray


Explanation:
fourth ray of the right foot

SJLD
Local time: 14:22
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PRO pts in category: 1923
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thank you

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agree  Marilyn Amouyal
2 mins
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agree  Drmanu49
1 hr
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agree  cezara lucas
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rayon [here]
fourth ray of the right foot


Explanation:

presented macrodactyly of the second, third and fourth ray of her right foot and of the third, fourth and fifth ray of her left foot. X-rays showed giant ...
www.springerlink.com/index/K23225625K7126M3.pdf - Pages similaires -
de R Dikkers - 2005 - Autres articles
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The Foot : An unusual case of bilateral congenital foot ...
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X-ray of right foot lateral view showing tarsal coalition. ... Alternatively, it could represent a fusion of the 4th and 5th metatarsals but bifid ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S095825920200069X - Pages similaires -
de MC Forster - 2002 - Les 6 versions
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Proximal chromosome 8q deletion in a boy with femoral bifurcation ...
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4th ray of the right foot (Fig. 2). He expired at 5.5 weeks of age. The parents declined a request for autopsy. CYTOGENETIC METHODS AND RESULTS ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ajmg.a.20626 - Pages similaires -



Le premier rayon de la main et du pied chez les primates (II ...
Mots clés : Primates, Main, Pied, Premier rayon, Anatomie fonctionnelle. Keywords : Primates, Hand, Foot, First ray, Functional anatomy ...
www.em-consulte.com/article/186207 - 48k - En cache - Pages similaires -
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Les déviations angulaires du 5 e rayon du pied. A propos de 27 ...
L'analyse clinique attentive des déviations angulaires du 5 e rayon ... Malformation; Malformation; Malformación; Pied; Foot; Pie; Traitement; ...
cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=952628 - Pages similaires -
de PC PISANI - 2001
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Chirurgie de l'avant-pied - Résultats Google Recherche de Livres
de Bernard Valtin, Thibault Leemrijse, Société ... - 2005 - Medical - 261 pages
L'instabilité intrinsèque du premier rayon, liée à ses variations de position angulaire et aux ... Some observations on the development of the human foot. ...
books.google.fr/books?isbn=2842997174... -

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Iraq
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Trinh Do: This provides the full answer.
1 hr
  -> Merci
agree  cezara lucas
20 hrs
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): well documented answer
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Ray Of The Foot


Explanation:
Found here:
Titre du document / Document title
Les déviations angulaires du 5e rayon du pied. A propos de 27 observations = Angular deviations of the fifth ray of the foot
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
PISANI P. C. (1) ;


Example sentence(s):
  • Angular deviations of the fifth ray of the foot

    Reference: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=952628
Frederic Lievre
Ireland
Local time: 13:22
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
(fourth) toe


Explanation:
OK, in translating this from French to English, we have to take a little bit of liberty. In English, the toes are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, the big toe being #1. The 1st toe has only two phalanges, but the others have three each, the proximal, the middle and the distal phalanges corresponding to the French "premiere", "deuxieme" and "troisieme" phalanges. So, the French text says that there was an amputation of the proximal phalanx and the middle and distal phalanges of the fourth toe. The beginning of the sentence was not included, so perhaps there is some modifier of what happened to the proximal phalanx which would explain the somewhat clumsy sentence structure. Additionally, since surgeons do not generally fillet out the bones of the toe, I must assume that the attached soft tissues of the toe were also amputated (parenthetical smile).
Assuming that the deleted first part of the sentence does not specify otherwise, one could simply say that the 4th toe was amputated. Incidentally, the "ray" also includes the metatarsal bone, but from the context, it does not appear to have been affected.

Annales de Chirurgie Plastique Esthétique : The use of ...
Utilisation de la deuxième phalange vascularisée de l'index pour la reconstruction du ... In this case report, the use of middle phalanx of index finger for .

Kidney International - Abstract of article: Skeletal X-ray ...
... second finger, middle phalanx) and periosteal new bone formation (middle ... deuxième doigt, deuxième phalange) est le signe le mieux correlé avec les ...

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Note added at 19 hrs (2009-05-04 04:04:18 GMT)
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BTW, correct me if you disagree, but I really do not see any medical reason in the source text for such confusing language other than the usual penchant of French academic prose for obfuscation and elitism. :-p



Michael Barnett
Local time: 08:22
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Reference comments


12 mins
Reference: ray

Reference information:
ray or digital ray. See Dorland's dictionary: digital ray, a digit of the hand or foot and the corresponding portion of the metacarpus or metatarsus, considered as a continuous structural unit.

Marilyn Amouyal
France
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