Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

kinks

Spanish translation:

acodamientos

Added to glossary by cielos48
Nov 3, 2007 03:20
16 yrs ago
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English term

kinks

English to Spanish Medical Medical: Instruments
Other preventive risk reduction include the PBE monitoring for secondary membrane formation in the dialyzer and the early detection of filter clotting and kinks in the bloodlines that prompt the initiation of appropriate hemolysis prophylaxis.
Proposed translations (Spanish)
5 +2 acodamientos
4 vuelta
4 bucles

Proposed translations

+2
9 mins
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acodamientos

acodamiento.
1. m. Acción y efecto de acodar (‖ doblar en forma de codo).
acodar
2. tr. Doblar algo en forma de codo.


kink
1 a : a short and often tight twist or curl caused by a doubling or winding of something (as a rope or hair) upon itself *looped hose should be changed T to reverse folds and prevent kinks— G.E.Stecher* b : a bend in something (as a line) otherwise straight : INDENTATION, PROJECTION *a dozen curly streets with kinks in them— Thomas Wood *1950* *a kink in a line on a graph* c : a buckling of a railroad track due to longitudinal movement of the rails by creeping or expanding
Note from asker:
gracias, David
Peer comment(s):

agree celiacp : en España los llamamos así. El verbo acodar es el que utilizamos para los sistemas de suero,etc.
5 hrs
agree Egmont
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3 hrs

vuelta

o rizo en las lineas de conducción de la sangre.
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4 hrs

bucles

along the same register
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