grossolano - in this context

English translation: swollen, coarse, enlarged

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Italian term or phrase:	grossolano - in this context
English translation:	swollen, coarse, enlarged
Entered by:	achisholm

08:10 May 17, 2005

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Italian term or phrase: grossolano - in this context

Acromegalic patients:-

"Nella maggior parte dei pazienti si verifica un aumento di dimensioni delle mani, dei piedi e della testa, l’allargamento della mascella, la lingua aumenta di volume e i lineamenti del viso diventano grossolani."

Do they really mean, course, rough, gross here, or can it also mean simply enlarged, i.e. the facial features become enlarged.

achisholm KudoZ activity Questions: 3242 (none open) (7 without valid answers) (11 closed without grading) Answers: 212 United Kingdom
Local time: 04:23

swollen

Explanation:
I think they mean they are swollen, and therefore even course.

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Note added at 2 hrs 4 mins (2005-05-17 10:14:49 GMT)
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I meant coarse of course...

Selected response from:

Marcello Greco
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:23

Grading comment

Difficult one, the disease causes swelling of all bones (including craniofacial features) and so its difficult to choose. Many thanks to all answerers.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +3

swollen

Marcello Greco

4 +1

shapeless/disfigured

esoft

coarse

Rachel Fell

Answers

1 hr confidence:

coarse

Explanation:
I think there may well be swelling but they're just saying the features become coarse here.

What are the symptoms of acromegaly?
Symptoms of acromegaly vary depending on how long the patient has had the disease. The following are the most common symptoms. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently:

* swelling of the hands and feet
* facial features become coarse as bones grow
* body hair becomes coarse as the skin thickens and/or darkens
* increased perspiration accompanied with body odor
* protruding jaw

Reference: http://www.umm.edu/endocrin/acromegaly.htm

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:23
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 2002

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

swollen

Marcello Greco
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:23
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in pair: 28

Grading comment

Difficult one, the disease causes swelling of all bones (including craniofacial features) and so its difficult to choose. Many thanks to all answerers.

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

shapeless/disfigured

Explanation:
grossolano from Garzanti
1. "non raffinato, poco fine" as in the case of food preparation, or material. In the case of a person, it means uncultured.

2. "approssimativo, non preciso" - I think this is the meaning in your context. When the features enlarge they do not retain the "sculpted look" - I think this could be translated as "disfigured" or "shapeless" to mean that it has lost its figure....not in the sense of

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Note added at 5 hrs 3 mins (2005-05-17 13:14:37 GMT)
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not in the sense of unsightly.

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Note added at 1 day 5 hrs 56 mins (2005-05-18 14:07:02 GMT)
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Check out these links that refer to enlarged features of Acromegalic patients; they seem to have specific terminology for each type of feature, ie frontal bossing etc., but also seem to talk about \"coarse features\" as Rachel and Marcello suggested....

http://vivisimo.com/search?tb=homepage&query=enlarged featur...

esoft
Canada
Local time: 23:23
Native speaker of:

Italian,

English
PRO pts in pair: 620

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