pohled do blba

English translation: blank stare/absent-minded stare

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Czech term or phrase:	pohled do blba
English translation:	blank stare/absent-minded stare

14:44 Feb 26, 2012

The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2012-03-01 06:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)

Czech to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)

Czech term or phrase: pohled do blba

this comes from a medical report from the section present complaints

Radek Lhotsky KudoZ activity Questions: 4 (none open) Answers: 172
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blank stare/absent-minded stare

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Hannah Geiger (X)
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blank stare/absent-minded stare

Hannah Geiger (X)

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staring off into space

Scott Evan Andrews

4 +1

daydreaming or mind-wandering

Anna Nadvornikova-Hradil

Vacant expression

Charles Stanford

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staring off into space

Explanation:
it's what we say....:) Patient was ....

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Note added at 4 mins (2012-02-26 14:49:22 GMT)
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you may stretch it and perhaps say "appears catatonic"...

Scott Evan Andrews
United States
Local time: 18:44
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blank stare/absent-minded stare

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Hannah Geiger (X)
United States
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Vacant expression

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Charles Stanford
Czech Republic
Local time: 18:44
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daydreaming or mind-wandering

Explanation:
Research by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett has found that people ............ just "spacing out"--i.e. one's mind going relatively blank—when they talk about "daydreaming."
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Daydreaming or mind-wandering - recognizable to one and all - is additional precisely definite as a state of mind where thoughts that are experienced by an individual are not related to what is going on in the environment around them.

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just "spacing out"--i.e. one's mind going relatively blank—when they talk about "daydreaming."
Daydreaming or mind-wandering a state of mind where thoughts that are experienced by an individual are not related to what is going on in the environment around them,

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daydream
Reference: http://classof1.com/homework_answers/psychology/maladaptive_...

Anna Nadvornikova-Hradil
Canada
Local time: 12:44
Native speaker of: Czech

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