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Medical - Medical: Health Care / genoterapia | | English term or phrase: a brick on a car brake | A text on gene therapies compares a brain circuit with "a brick on a car brake". I don't understand the analogy, nor whether it refers to the brake itself or the pedal that operates it, and I don't know how to say it in Spanish. Here is the context:
«One therapy may ease advanced Parkinson's disease by repairing an overactive brain circuit that causes typical symptoms of slowness and rigidity. That circuit acts like a brick on a car brake, interfering with the patient's ability to move. Brain surgeons currently remove that brick by implanting a pacemaker-like device that overrides this circuit.
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Dr. Kaplitt's gene therapy removes the brick from the brake by delivering a neurochemical called XXX into brain cells.»
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glaster
United States
Local time: 11:55
| Grading comment Totalmente de acuerdo en que lo que se debe traducir aquí es el sentido, y tu sugerencia lo hace. ¡Muchas gracias, glaster! ;o)
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El artículo original es de Reader's Digest.
http://www.rd.com/content/brain-biology-medical-research-and...
La expresión quiere decir una traba, algo que te impide avanzar. No es una expresión común, así que simplemente yo traduciría el sentido.
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Local time: 11:55
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| | Grading comment | Totalmente de acuerdo en que lo que se debe traducir aquí es el sentido, y tu sugerencia lo hace. ¡Muchas gracias, glaster! ;o) |
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Asker: Totalmente de acuerdo en que lo que se debe traducir aquí es el sentido, y tu sugerencia lo hace. ¡Muchas gracias, glaster!
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