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English translation: percentile/growth percentile line

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French term or phrase:	couloir de croissance
English translation:	percentile/growth percentile line
Entered by:	liz askew

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08:59 May 1, 2009

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Medical - Medical: Health Care

French term or phrase: couloir de croissance

Text on delayed growth in stature because of growth hormone/igf deficits....could this possibly be referring to recovering 1 standard deviation discrepancy? TIA, Jason.

petite taille avec cassure de la croissance et taux bas igf1

enfant de 9 ans avec un taille de -3 ds avec cassure de la courbe de croissance et un taux igf1 -2.5 deviation standard.en 6 mois il a repris 1 **couloir de croissance**

les enfants denutries et les enfants avec risque de developper un cancer

Jason Willis-Lee KudoZ activity Questions: 1105 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (30 closed without grading) Answers: 112
Local time: 02:44

growth track (since birth)

Explanation:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:vCuiLxGtWr8J:www.biolin...

here
= birth track

Charting Children's Growth - Safe Kids (UK)
Pediatricians often track a child's growth and compare their height and weight on well established growth and body mass index (BMI) charts. ...
www.safekids.co.uk/ChartingChildrensGrowth.html - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

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actually

this brings things back from when my children were young

they could be talking about the "percentile line" on the growth chart

or growth line

Les JTA
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Il est généralement considéré qu'environ 90 % des enfants présentant un RCIU rattrapent un couloir de croissance staturale considéré comme normal vers l'âge ...
www.lesjta.com/article.php?ar_id=459 - 26k - Cached - Similar pages

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percentile

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=g...

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Understanding the growth percentiles!
When you look at a growth chart, you will see seven curves that follow the same pattern. Each one represents a different percentile: 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, ...
www.growtall.com/growth-charts2.htm - 5k - Cached - Similar pages
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Pediatric Growth Charts and Child Growth Percentile Calculator
A pediatric growth chart shows us how a child's height compares with those of ... steady growth throughout childhood, along one of the percentile lines. ...
www.nutropin.com/patient/3_5_3_growth_charts.jsp - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

final offer

percentile

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aaaargh
sorry

percentile line

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Oski's Pediatrics: Principles & Practice - Google Books Result
by Julia A. McMillan, Ralph D. Feigin, Frank A ... - 2006 - Medical - 2808 pages
In mild to moderate degrees of IUGR, head growth may proceed along normal percentile grids, with a decrease in body fat and restriction in length and weight ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0781738946...

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This is driving me nut

growth percentile line

then we keep the "growth" bit

Pediatric Gastroenterology - Google Books Result
by Chris A. Liacouras, David A. Piccoli - 2007 - Medical - 344 pages
Crossing of two or more growth curve percentile lines along the NCHS growth charts ... healthy, white children crossed at least one growth percentile line, ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=032303280X...

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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:44

Grading comment

Thanks Liz...
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Summary of answers provided

5 +1

constitutional growth

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Standard Deviation

Muriel FINETIN

3 +2

growth track (since birth)

liz askew

growth corridor

S halder

growth pathway

Trinh Do

4 -1

Chemin

Frederic Lievre

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Chemin

Explanation:
On this one I would say "Path of growth", "Path of devlopment"

Frederic Lievre
Ireland
Local time: 01:44
Native speaker of:

English,

French

16 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

constitutional growth

Explanation:
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oks.google.fr/books?isbn=2294019474... -
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Grande prématurité associée à un retard de croissance intra utérin ...
Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Version HTML
trois ans, et continue de suivre un couloir de croissance staturale inférieur ... Definition of fetal growth restriction according to constitutional growth ...
www.lesjta.com/html2fpdf/article_pdf.php?ar_id=459 - Pages similaires -

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Iraq
Local time: 02:44
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 54

21 mins confidence:

growth pathway

Explanation:
I come across several sites mentioning of growth hormone and pathways. Maybe this is what is meant in this context.

Trinh Do
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Vietnamese

22 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

growth track (since birth)

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 136

Grading comment

Thanks Liz...

17 mins confidence:

Standard Deviation

Explanation:
«Could this possibly be referring to recovering 1 standard deviation discrepancy?»
Yes, it does.

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Example phrase: «La taille actuelle est inférieure de – 2,8 DS (soit 2,8 couloirs de croissance) à la taille cible génétique.»

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Please note that, obviously, Standard Deviation cannot be limited to "couloir de croissance", but in this sentence, when the author writes "il a repris un couloir de croissance", he definitely means "he gained 1 SD".

Reference: http://www.med.univ-angers.fr/discipline/pediatrie/Endoped03...
Reference: http://www.wvdhhr.org/bms/sPharmacy/drugs/drugs_GrowthHormon...

Muriel FINETIN
France
Local time: 02:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French

1 day14 hrs confidence:

growth corridor

Explanation:
should work!

S halder
Local time: 02:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 11

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