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Italian to English translations [Non-PRO] Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / clinical trial
Italian term or phrase:dopo 6 giorni
Dopo 6 giorni dall'esecuzione delle iniezioni intradermiche [...]
Dopo 48 e 72 ore dall'inizio della fase scatenante [...]
I have a style issue.
Can I say "At day 6 after [performing] the intradermal injections [...]", "At 48 and 72 hours after the beginning [...] instead of "Six/6 days after [performing] the intradermal injections [...], "Fourty-eight/48 and 72 hours after the beginning [...]?
Keeping all the numerals in digits, not in initial position, would be stylistically more elegant for me.
Explanation: This is the correct English rendition.
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For the second question, I would solve the problem by putting the adverbial phrase at the end of the sentence (which you have not given us).
Bla bla bla bla happened, 48 and 72 hours after the beginning of the trigger phase.
Advice from a native English speaker with academic experience, a journal peer reviewer and a long list of scientific publications to her name.
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As for the "number greater than ten" convention, this has nothing to do with whether the number starts the sentence. Depending on whose style guide you're looking at, the convention is that numbers less than 10 (or 11 or 21) are written in letters, regardless of where they are placed in the sentence.
In general, spell out all numbers under 11. Use numerals for most numbers 11 and above. Never follow a spelled-out number with the numeral in parentheses.
USE: five
NOT: five (5)
When to Spell Out Numbers (in Text)
Spell out the following:
All numbers that begin a sentence or title (or reword the phrase).
And as I suspected... not trigger but challenge phase.
BTW clinical trials are conducted on humans, not guinea pigs.
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24 nov 2011 – 4.2 Somministrazione La prova è costituita da una fase induttiva e da una fase scatenante (challenge). Fase induttiva Giorno 0 - gruppo
If you have a problem starting the sentence with numbers, then put the adverbial phrase "48 and 72 hours after the beginning..." at the end >> X was done 48 and 72 hours after the beginning of the trigger phase (if that's what it is - no context, can't be sure).
Nothing wrong with starting a sentence with a number, as long as it is written in words and not numerals. And it sounds much more natural. Six days after... Forty-eight hours after the beginning...
After X days from... is not an English construction
After six days from/forty-eight/seventy-hours from
Explanation: It is standard English convention that you do not start a sentence with a number less than ten. For numbers greater than ten, it is widely accepted to do so.
See:
"Never begin a sentence with a numeral. Revise a sentence so that it begins with a word or spell out the number if it is not too large.
WRONG: 254 days were required for the journey.
REVISED: Two hundred and fifty-four days were required for the journey.
Source: Scribner Handbook of English, third edition, p428."
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Correction: Meant to say seventy-two not "seventy-hours."
Asker: Thanks. I found out "After X from" is used enough", I think I am going to choose this option. My first option was using letters for numbers at the start of sentence, since I knew this is a style requirement, but I had a problem with "Fourty-eight and seventy-two hours" since the second number should have been treated differently, so there was a lack of symmetry in the sentence construction.
Asker: Issue is that "fourty-eight and 72 hours" is not symmetrical. If I write "fourty-two seventy-two" the whole translation is asymmetrical and I have to change all the other numerals that are over 10 and indicate hours.
15 hrs confidence:
after six days ..../ after 48 and 72 hours since...
Explanation: Semplicemente cosi...
After 6 days of the execution of intradermal injections [...]
After 48 and 72 hours since the start trigger [...]
corallia Local time: 05:47 Works in field Native speaker of: Romanian
Explanation: This is the correct English rendition.
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For the second question, I would solve the problem by putting the adverbial phrase at the end of the sentence (which you have not given us).
Bla bla bla bla happened, 48 and 72 hours after the beginning of the trigger phase.
Advice from a native English speaker with academic experience, a journal peer reviewer and a long list of scientific publications to her name.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs (2011-12-04 10:15:58 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
As for the "number greater than ten" convention, this has nothing to do with whether the number starts the sentence. Depending on whose style guide you're looking at, the convention is that numbers less than 10 (or 11 or 21) are written in letters, regardless of where they are placed in the sentence.
In general, spell out all numbers under 11. Use numerals for most numbers 11 and above. Never follow a spelled-out number with the numeral in parentheses.
USE: five
NOT: five (5)
When to Spell Out Numbers (in Text)
Spell out the following:
All numbers that begin a sentence or title (or reword the phrase).
Thirty days after final test...
SJLD Local time: 05:47 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 35
The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +1
