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sub-unidad

English translation: sub-unit

19:35 Jan 14, 2002
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical / muscles
Spanish term or phrase: sub-unidad
Los componentes contráctiles del músculo estriado esquelético, que actúan como subunidad funcional y estructural de la fibra muscular son las miofibrillas.

MY VERSION:
The contractile components of the skeletal striated muscle that give functional and structural sub-unity to the muscular fibres are known as myofibrils.
I have absolutely NO idea of what is meant by sub-unity/sub-unidad.

Text on muscles.

?????

Her's a bit more text, the bit that follows on from above:

. Las miofibrillas se componen de haces de miofilamentos (polímeros filamentosos de diversas proteínas). Las estriaciones transversales son la principal característica histológica del músculo estriado.
Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 09:38
English translation:sub-unit
Explanation:
Could you have mis-read "unidad" as "unity" when it referred to "unit". To me, "sub-unit" makes sense in the context; "structural and functional sub-unit", i.e. not a full unit, but a subclass thereof.

Try google on a set like (structural subunit component). Lots of similar contexts.

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Note added at 2002-01-14 20:09:55 (GMT)
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Myofibrils are the contractile components of striated skeletal muscle which act as structural and functional subunits of muscle fibre.
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Margaret Schroeder
Mexico
Local time: 01:38
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Thanks for pointing out my error.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1sub-unit
Simon Charass
5sub-unit
Margaret Schroeder
4 +1sub-units
Javier Bogarin, MD
4sub-unit
Hazel Whiteley
4sub-unit?
Paula Serrano
4wich work as
P Forgas
4subunits
Mary Smith (X)
4how about "that act as functional and structural sub-units
Parrot
4 -1subunity
Maria Karra
4 -1Let's take it even further. You can change the sentence around and also worded as:
Maria


  

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sub-unit


Explanation:
La referencia da ejemplos que parecen relevantes


    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22functio...
Hazel Whiteley
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sub-unit


Explanation:
Could you have mis-read "unidad" as "unity" when it referred to "unit". To me, "sub-unit" makes sense in the context; "structural and functional sub-unit", i.e. not a full unit, but a subclass thereof.

Try google on a set like (structural subunit component). Lots of similar contexts.

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Note added at 2002-01-14 20:09:55 (GMT)
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Myofibrils are the contractile components of striated skeletal muscle which act as structural and functional subunits of muscle fibre.

Margaret Schroeder
Mexico
Local time: 01:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 1449
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Thanks for pointing out my error.
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sub-unit?


Explanation:
From your text, I understand that the muscle is a unit, made up of "sub-units" are what you call "myofibrils" (I don´t know the term in English, but yours seems correct)

Hope it helps,

Paula

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Note added at 2002-01-14 19:44:24 (GMT)
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it should read \"which are what you call\"

Paula Serrano
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wich work as


Explanation:
The contractile components of the skeletal striated muscle, wich work as functional and structural sub-unities of the muscular fibres, are known as myofibrils.


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Note added at 2002-01-14 19:52:27 (GMT)
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which, of course!

P Forgas
Brazil
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Roxane Dow: Yes, this correction is needed
5 mins
  -> tanks
disagree  Elena Sgarbo (X): 'which' is not as correct as 'that' in this sentence. There is no other element -except fot he myofibrils- that can work as functional & structural...etc. So 'that' is the best adjective here.
20 mins
  -> adjective???
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sub-unit


Explanation:
The contractile components of the skeletal striated muscle which are the muscular fibres' functional and structural sub-unit are known as myofibrils.

Please check the link below. You'll be amazed, I'm sure



    Reference: http://www.bartleby.com/107/103.html
Simon Charass
Canada
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agree  Edith Grandiccelli de Talamo
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  -> Thanks!
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subunity


Explanation:
Ailish, here subunidad simply means "component", "part". But since "component" is used in the same sentence, I suggest you leave it as "subunity". In general, the difference between "subunity" and "component" is that the subunity can function by itself.

Maria Karra
United States
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Margaret Schroeder: "Unity" significa "unidad" en el sentido de "armonía", no de "componente". En inglés son palabras muy distintas "unit" y "unity".
16 mins
  -> You are absolutely right. My mistake. Should be "subunit".
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Let's take it even further. You can change the sentence around and also worded as:


Explanation:
The myobrils are the contractile components of the skeletal striated muscle that work as functional and structural sub-unities of the muscular fibres.

Does the sentence make more sense to you this way?

Happy translating! ;o) Maria


Maria
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disagree  Gillian Hargreaves (X): No, doesn't make sense that way.
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sub-units


Explanation:
Myofibrils are the contractile component of striated skeletal muscle. They constitute the functional and structural sub-units of the muscle fiber.

Javier Bogarin, MD
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agree  Elena Sgarbo (X)
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subunits


Explanation:
From Stedman's Medical Dictionary

subunit - a unit that forms a distict part of a larger structure

myofibril - One of the fine longitudinal fibrils occuring in a skeletal or cardiac muscle fiber comprising many regularly overlapped ultramicroscopic thick an thin myofilaments.


Myofibrils are the contractil components of striated muscle; they act as structural and funcional subunits of muscular fibers.

Me2



Mary Smith (X)
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how about "that act as functional and structural sub-units


Explanation:
to the muscular fibres"?
If you consider the muscle itself as a unit (of which there are several) these are components of the muscle. In that sense they are sub-units.

Parrot
Spain
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neutral  Gillian Hargreaves (X): Yes, but "act as ... sub-units OF" rather than "... TO"
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