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empurramento

English translation: pressure, backpressure, pushing

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Portuguese term or phrase:empurramento
English translation:pressure, backpressure, pushing
Entered by: Neil Crockford

21:46 Jan 9, 2017
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Portuguese term or phrase: empurramento
In a medical report following an MRI scan.

"...observando-se empurramento posteriotr das raizes do canal lombar em relação com ancoragem."
Neil Crockford
Local time: 12:36
pressure, backpressure, pushing
Explanation:
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 09:36
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Thanks. This seems most appropriate here.
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5pushing
Gutemberg Raposo
3 +1pressure, backpressure, pushing
Mario Freitas


  

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pressure, backpressure, pushing


Explanation:
Sugestão

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 09:36
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68
Grading comment
Thanks. This seems most appropriate here.

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agree  Margarida Ataide
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pushing


Explanation:
adjective
1.
that pushes.
2.
enterprising; energetic.
3.
tactlessly or officiously aggressive; forward; intrusive.

verb (used with object)
1.
to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
2.
to move (something) in a specified way by exerting force; shove; drive:
to push something aside; to push the door open.
3.
to effect or accomplish by thrusting obstacles aside:
to push one's way through the crowd.
4.
to cause to extend or project; thrust.
5.
to press or urge to some action or course:
His mother pushed him to get a job.
6.
to press (an action, proposal, etc.) with energy and insistence:
to push a bill through Congress.
7.
to carry (an action or thing) toward a conclusion or extreme:
She pushed the project to completion.

Example sentence(s):
  • complications from hydrocephalus, a condition in which excessive fluid fills the cranial cavity, pushing on the brain, which Marc had lived with since he was 25.
  • the Greek word for wisdom, stands in the vanguard of a global movement now pushing to revise drug policies set in the 1970s.

    Reference: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
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Gutemberg Raposo
Brazil
Local time: 09:36
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Native speaker of: Portuguese
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