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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 - external organization data 2020-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

For conditions and failures, such as pipe breaks, loss of inventory, loss of flow, loss of pressure and loss of vacuum, for which unit response and operator actions are a function of the degree of severity of the condition or failure...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Dans le cas de conditions et de défaillances, comme par exemple une rupture de conduite, une perte d'inventaire ou de débit, une chute de pression ou une détérioration du vide, pour lesquelles la réaction des systèmes et les interventions des opérateurs dépendent du degré de gravité de la condition ou de la défaillance [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
OBS

Physicians typically classify the severity of hemorrhoids in degrees. These degrees are as follows : First degree-hemorrhoid-bleeding; Second degree-hemorrhoid-prolapsed but retracts naturally...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
OBS

Au deuxième degré, l'hémorroïde sort uniquement pendant l'expulsion des selles pour ensuite revenir à l'intérieur de l'anus naturellement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
DEF

[A language disorder] characterized as impairment in both receptive and expressive language development, although the degree and severity of each will vary.

CONT

A person with mixed receptive-expressive language disorder may have difficulty following oral directions and will require written directions. A person with this disorder may have difficulty in various social settings, as s/he may not be able to process what is being said, or be unable to coherently express her/himself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
DEF

[Trouble du langage qui se manifeste] par une altération du développement des capacités expressives et des capacités réceptives du langage.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
DEF

A localized, progressively destructive disease of the teeth resulting from the action of microorganisms on carbohydrates, characterized by decalcification of the inorganic portions of the tooth and accompanied or followed by disintegration of the organic portion.

OBS

Formerly classified by degree of severity : caries of first degree(enamel alone decalcified) ;caries of second degree(enamel and dentin affected) ;caries of third degree(pulp exposed) ;caries of fourth degree(putrefactive decomposition of pulp).

OBS

The term "caries" was recommended by the Medical Signs and Symptoms Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie
DEF

Destruction progressive d'une dent par les bactéries.

OBS

Le terme "carie" a été privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Key term(s)
  • caries dentaires

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Odontología
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Record 5 - external organization data 2008-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Nuclear Power Stations
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

For conditions and failures, such as pipe breaks, loss of inventory, loss of flow, loss of pressure and loss of vacuum, for which unit response and operator actions are a function of the degree of severity of the condition or failure...

Key term(s)
  • vacuum loss

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Dans le cas de conditions et de défaillances, comme par exemple un bris de tuyauterie, une perte d'inventaire ou de débit, une chute de pression ou une détérioration du vide, pour lesquelles la réaction des systèmes et les interventions des opérateurs dépendent du degré de gravité de la condition ou de la défaillance [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2008-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Nuclear Power Stations
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

For conditions and failures, such as pipe breaks, loss of inventory, loss of flow, loss of pressure and loss of vacuum, for which unit response and operator actions are a function of the degree of severity of the condition or failure...

Key term(s)
  • pressure loss

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Dans le cas de conditions et de défaillances, comme par exemple un bris de tuyauterie, une perte d'inventaire ou de débit, une chute de pression ou une détérioration du vide, pour lesquelles la réaction des systèmes et les interventions des opérateurs dépendent du degré de gravité de la condition ou de la défaillance [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
DEF

The probable rate of occurrence of a hazard causing harm and the degree of severity of the harm.

OBS

The concept of risk always has two elements; the frequency with which a hazard occurs and the consequences of the hazardous event.

OBS

Draft International Standard 1508, IEC-TC 65, Functional Safety, 1995.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance
OBS

Projet de norme internationale 1508, CEI-TC65, Sûreté fonctionnelle, 1995.

PHR

Contrat d'études de levée de risque.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fire Prevention
  • Fire-Fighting Services
  • Brush, Prairie and Forest Fires
DEF

A period when fire fighters, fire control equipment, and aircraft are kept ready for deployment on short notice, usually when the fire danger reaches a predetermined degree of severity.

OBS

[A period of alert] may also involve an increase in fire prevention activities and often precedes a forest closure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévention des incendies
  • Service d'incendie
  • Incendies de végétation
DEF

Période durant laquelle les équipes d'intervention sont sur un pied d'alerte et les mesures de prévention accentuées en raison du danger d'incendie.

Spanish

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Record 9 2004-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Cancers and Oncology
DEF

A classification of the spread of malignant tumors used internationally, in which each letter is given a coefficient indicative of a degree of severity(T : local spread, or primary tumor; N(nodes) : presence of [metastases in] lymph nodes; M : remote metastases).

CONT

TNM classification provides a system for staging the occurrence of cancer. T refers to the primary tumour and is categorised as being 1-4 and a-d depending upon site, size and spread, N refers to the lymph nodes and they are categorised as being X,0,1,2, or 3 depending upon in any, some or all are involved metastases, and M to the presence or absence of distant metastases.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Cancers et oncologie
DEF

Classification de l'extension des tumeurs malignes, utilisée internationalement, où chaque lettre est affectée d'un coefficient correspondant à un degré de gravité (T : extension locale de la tumeur primitive; N (nodes) : [...] [atteinte aux ganglions (métastases)] M : métastases à distance).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Procedimientos diagnósticos (Medicina)
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
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Record 10 2003-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

Describing a degree of disease severity between acute and chronic.

Key term(s)
  • sub-acute

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Se dit d'une maladie à évolution moins rapide que celles qu'on appelle aiguës, p. ex. une myosite subaiguë enzootique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina veterinaria
  • Procedimientos diagnósticos (Medicina)
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Record 11 2003-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
DEF

Vague term often loosely applied in malariology with reference to the degree of severity of symptoms, the level of parasite density, morbidity or parasite rates, vector densities, etc.

OBS

Should preferably be replaced by a precise term indicating the relevant measurement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
DEF

Terme vague, souvent utilisé de façon imprécise en paludologie pour qualifier la gravité des symptômes, la densité parasitaire, le taux de morbidité, l'indice plasmodique, la densité anophélienne etc.

OBS

Il y a avantage à le remplacer par une expression précisant le phénomène en cause.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades humanas
  • Microbiología y parasitología
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Record 12 2000-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Insurance
  • Sociology of persons with a disability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Assurances
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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