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alición

English translation: a flattening or smoothing out (if referring to alisar)


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Spanish term or phrase:alición
English translation:a flattening or smoothing out (if referring to alisar)
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14:19 Sep 2, 2005
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Medical - Medical: Health Care / blood donation
Spanish term or phrase: alición
Text from interview with blood bank techician:
si se van a tomar para tiempos entonces ese va primero por qué, porque la vena causa una alición entonces las plaquetas ahí saldrían alteradas
Simon Critchley
Local time: 03:22
a flattening or smoothing out (if referring to alisar)
Explanation:
my guess.
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Enrique Soria
Local time: 03:22
Grading comment
Eso es!! Gracias!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2wound (lesion)fcoreyesv
3 +1a flattening or smoothing out (if referring to alisar)
Enrique Soria


  

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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
alición
a flattening or smoothing out (if referring to alisar)


Explanation:
my guess.

Enrique Soria
Local time: 03:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Eso es!! Gracias!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Hughson (J.D., M.B.A. Finance): makes sense
49 mins
  -> muchas gracias.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
alición
wound (lesion)


Explanation:
if the interview was recorded maybe he or she meant "una lesión" which means that the body reacts to the puncture "sending" plaquets to the open wound, altering the counts.

fcoreyesv
Local time: 04:22
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Brown: Makes sense to me, If the vein collapsed (flattened) it would do more than affect the platelets
4 hrs

agree  xxxElena Sgarbo: Sí, el original era "una lesión": an injury.
1 day20 hrs
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