sottogenuale (Italian to English translation glossary) venuous insufficiency,Medical (general),Medical

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04:02 Dec 9, 2005

Italian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / venuous insufficiency

Italian term or phrase: sottogenuale

I'm at a loss with this term. Is it a typo perhaps? The document is a discharge report, and this section concerns the tests conducted on this patient. The full sentence is:
Trombosi completa della v. safena interna della porzione immediatamente sottogenuale sino a 2 cm circa dalla crosse safeno-femorale.
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Amy Taylor KudoZ activity Questions: 222 (1 open) (2 without valid answers) Answers: 132 United States
Local time: 04:06

English translation:below the knee

Explanation:
there is a thrombosis in the saphenous vein (it runs from the foot up to the thigh to meet the femoral vein at the spheno-femoral junction)fom below the jnee up to the sapheno -femoral junction.
see for info about saphenous vein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_saphenous_vein

sottogenual can only mena below the knee here

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Note added at 36 mins (2005-12-09 04:39:26 GMT)
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see thses for relation knee and saphenous vein
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls...

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Georges Tocco
United States
Local time: 05:06

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Thanks. Also to Alfredo for assistance with the Latin etymology.
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below the knee

Georges Tocco

subgenual

Luuk Arens

Answers

18 mins confidence:

subgenual

Explanation:
I am no medical expert, but this word does exist. Try and run it through Google to see if it is what you are looking for...

Luuk Arens
Netherlands
Local time: 11:06
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