ostium

English translation: OSTIUM [singular];// ostia [pl.]

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Spanish term or phrase:	OSTIUM
English translation:	OSTIUM [singular];// ostia [pl.]
Entered by:	ACCURATE77

03:27 Nov 11, 2003

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical

Spanish term or phrase: ostium

Subject: Autopsy: Internal exam.
Context: "Los ***ostium***coronarios estan ampliamente patentes."

ACCURATE77 KudoZ activity Questions: 77 (1 open) (2 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 65
Local time: 20:24

ostium

Explanation:
Exactamente la misma palabra. Es el corazón están los dos ostium auriculoventriculares, el ostium aórtico y el pulmonar.

Ref.: Nuevo Diccionario Médico, Teide.

Selected response from:

Mariflor Salas
Venezuela
Local time: 20:24

Grading comment

Despite my difficulty to select the best answer, I chose yours because you made the effort to look into the medical dictionary and you were the first one to answer. Accept my sincere thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +9

ostium

Mariflor Salas

5 +1

opening / ostium

Ernesto Samper Nieto

3 +1

ostium

BenKC (X)

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +9

ostium

Explanation:
Exactamente la misma palabra. Es el corazón están los dos ostium auriculoventriculares, el ostium aórtico y el pulmonar.

Ref.: Nuevo Diccionario Médico, Teide.

Mariflor Salas
Venezuela
Local time: 20:24
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 4

Grading comment

Despite my difficulty to select the best answer, I chose yours because you made the effort to look into the medical dictionary and you were the first one to answer. Accept my sincere thanks.

17 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

ostium

Explanation:
same in English

The ostiums of coronary arteries are amply patent.

good luck

BenKC (X)
Local time: 09:24
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in pair: 4

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

opening / ostium

Explanation:
Next, a diagnostic catheter, which is a long narrow tube, is advanced through the introducer over a .035"guidewire, into the blood vessel. This catheter is then guided to the aorta and the guidewire is removed. Once the catheter is placed in the *** opening or ostium *** of one of the coronary arteries, the doctor injects dye and takes a series of X-rays (film of the images).

Reference: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/presentations/100160...

Ernesto Samper Nieto
Colombia
Local time: 19:24
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 378

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