Oct 26, 2021 13:19
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Spanish term
Spain
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Native in: English (Variants: UK, British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Catalan to English
UC negativo
Spanish to English
Medical
Medical (general)
This is in a medical report on an elderly woman whose son found her lying on the floor one morning when he took her her breakfast. Diagnosed as suffering a stroke (blood clot in Mid Cerebral Artery). This is in a section headed "Complicaciones añadidas durante el ingreso":
- proceso febril con sospecha de broncoaspiración, a tratamiento con amoxicilina-clavulámica desde el [fecha]. **UC negativo**. HC pendientes.
- proceso febril con sospecha de broncoaspiración, a tratamiento con amoxicilina-clavulámica desde el [fecha]. **UC negativo**. HC pendientes.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +4 | urine culture |
Dr Jane Marshall
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References
| Cosnautas |
Joseph Tein
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Proposed translations
+4
4 mins
Selected
urine culture
It must be urocultivo / urine culture
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Note added at 5 mins (2021-10-26 13:24:40 GMT)
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also HC=hemocultivo=blood culture
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Note added at 5 mins (2021-10-26 13:24:40 GMT)
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also HC=hemocultivo=blood culture
Example sentence:
urine culture negative, blood culture results awaited/pending
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Jane. I didn't think of these possibilities, probably because "Orina" starts with "O" and "Sangre" starts with "S". |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks very much, Jane, for UC and for HC, too."
Reference comments
5 hrs
Joseph Tein
United States
United States
Native in English
Specializes in field
United States
Multilingual. Very careful & precise.
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Italian to English
Related KudoZ points
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412
Reference:
Cosnautas
You would find UC and HC and 30,000 more Spanish medical initialisms and acronyms here in this most useful online resource.
We also have an excellent, very comprehensive hard-copy resource in Ian Beattie's book, Medical Abbreviations Spanish-English, put out by the Editorial Club Universitario in Spain (available through Amazon).
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Note added at 1 day 4 hrs (2021-10-27 17:21:06 GMT)
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Hi Peter. Yes, Cosnautas is the best and most comprehensive online resource. Ian Beattie's book is the best hard-copy resource that I know of; he has all of his 14,000+ Spanish entries with their meanings in Spanish, plus the English equivalent of each one.
We also have an excellent, very comprehensive hard-copy resource in Ian Beattie's book, Medical Abbreviations Spanish-English, put out by the Editorial Club Universitario in Spain (available through Amazon).
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Note added at 1 day 4 hrs (2021-10-27 17:21:06 GMT)
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Hi Peter. Yes, Cosnautas is the best and most comprehensive online resource. Ian Beattie's book is the best hard-copy resource that I know of; he has all of his 14,000+ Spanish entries with their meanings in Spanish, plus the English equivalent of each one.
Example sentence:
17 urocultivo || ≡ CO (cultivo de orina), CU (cultivo urinario), URC, URO || ◊ UC (urine culture)
Reference:
Note from asker:
| Thank you so much for these references, Joseph. They sound very useful. I found some Spanish/English medical dictionaries online, but none of them included the terms I was searching for. |
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