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maskergelaat

English translation: mask-like face


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Dutch term or phrase:maskergelaat
English translation:mask-like face
Entered by: Edirel Susanna
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16:45 Jul 30, 2009
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Medical (general)
Dutch term or phrase: maskergelaat
lich maskergelaat (Neurological examination)
Edirel Susanna
United States
Local time: 23:29
mask-like face
Explanation:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KDpsq6CWCV4C&pg=PT118&lpg...

http://www.healthcarerepublic.com/rss/education/MRCGP/articl...
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Sindy Cremer
Ireland
Local time: 04:29
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1mask-like face
Sindy Cremer
4facial rigidity
Joost Elshoff
4"wooden" expression
Lianne Van De Ven


Discussion entries: 6





  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"wooden" expression


Explanation:
I just translated this (DSM IV context - psychiatry) out of English "wooden" expression.

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Lees Parkinson - Promootio.nl
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... neemt men het maskergelaat waar, de merkwaardige blik met zeldzame ooglidslag; ..... If I appear to stare at you, or have a wooden expression that's ...
www.promootio.nl/floor/Parkins.txt - Cached - Similar -
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RICHTLIJN Cesar & de Ziekte van Parkinson
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meebewegen van arm(en) tijdens het lopen en het maskergelaat. ..... Wood BH, Bilclough JA, Bowron A, Walker RW. Incidence and prediction of falls in .... Variable expression of. Parkinson's disease: a base-line analysis of the DATATOP ...
www.vvocm.nl/admin/Portal/LinkClick.aspx?...

Lianne Van De Ven
United States
Local time: 23:29
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Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
mask-like face


Explanation:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KDpsq6CWCV4C&pg=PT118&lpg...

http://www.healthcarerepublic.com/rss/education/MRCGP/articl...


Example sentence(s):
  • Commonly associated features include the following: a fixed, mask-like face; bradykinesia...
  • Clinical features: mask-like face, indistinct speech, flexed posture
Sindy Cremer
Ireland
Local time: 04:29
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  SJLD: also mask-like facies in more doctorly language :-)
22 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
facial rigidity


Explanation:
As suggested on website of IIDRSI:

Term facial rigidity
Definition Decrease in facial expression encountered among Parkinsonian subjects, giving them an immobile facial expression, like a mask.


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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-07-30 20:41:57 GMT)
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After consulting Cecil Textbook of Medicine other possibilities are:
-hypomimia
-masked facies
-parkinsonian facies

Links:
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/parkinsonian...
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Hypomimia


    Reference: http://www.med.univ-rennes1.fr/iidris/cache/an/47/4707
    Reference: http://www.samefacts.com/archives/_/2004/07/treating_parkins...
Joost Elshoff
Local time: 05:29
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Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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