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Record 1 2005-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
  • Various Metal Ores
CONT

Zinc-rich skarns have in many cases developed along lithologic contacts and structural pathways in unmetamorphosed rocks distant from the intrusive contact, and in places pass distally into replacement manto and chimney deposits significantly higher in ore tonnage and grade than the skarn.

CONT

Advanced argillic alteration ... is one of the more intense forms of alteration, often present as an inner zone adjoining many base metal vein or pipe deposits associated with acid plutonic stocks as at Butte, Montana, and Cerro de Pasco in Peru.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Molybdène. - [...] Beaucoup de gîtes en forme de cheminées ou «pipes», par exemple en Australie [...], dans des granites.

CONT

Dans les gîtes en pipes et en cheminée, le minerai est souvent bréchique.

CONT

Gisement en pipe : Shangani (Zimbabwé). Ce gisement [...], associé à un complexe ultrabasique dans une série de tufs acides, est original par sa géométrie : en pipe, ou plus exactement en «champignon», sorte de protubérance à partir d'un corps ultrabasique bien stratifié et différencié stérile. La structure minéralisée mesure environ 550 X 550 mètres [...]

CONT

Gisements en pipes ou «champignon».

CONT

Un exemple de gisement en «pipe» : le gisement de tungstène de Puy-les-Vignes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Paleontology
DEF

The eighth segment of the walking leg... located distally on the walking leg after the telotarsus.

OBS

[The pretarsus] bears the ungues and the dactyl.

OBS

Plural: pretarsi.

Key term(s)
  • pretarsi

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Paléontologie
CONT

Les métamères 2 à 16 [d'un Myriapode] portent chacun une paire de pattes ambulatoires courtes, simples, formées d'une série de 7 articles (hanche, trochanter, fémur, tibia, tarse et prétarse) [...]

CONT

Une patte comprend généralement les segments suivants : un coxa ou hanche; un trochanter; un fémur ou cuisse; un tibia ou jambe; un tarse à nombre variable d'articles et, à l'extrémité, un prétarse ou empodium ou acropode possédant habituellement une paire de griffes [...] et d'autres structures associées.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Nervous System
DEF

A sign of a lesion of the pyramidal tract : extension of the big toe with fanning out of the other toes can be seen on applying pressure progressively more distally along the length of the tibial crest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Extension du gros orteil obtenue par une pression descendante sur la musculature antéro-externe de la jambe et témoignant d'une atteinte des voies pyramidales.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Sistema nervioso
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Record 4 2000-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orthopedic Surgery
CONT

The fixation of the graft is undertaken distally by means of a Corin anchor, which enters the tibial tunnel and the doubled tendons are looped around its bollard. The proximal fixation is a claw/screw device, which securely clamps the double grafts to the bone at their emergence from the tibial tunnel on the lateral condylar flare.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie orthopédique
CONT

Creusement du tunnel tibial. L'extrémité tibiale postérieure de ce tunnel est repérée a 1 cm en dessous du rebord postérieur du tibia, [...] Le tunnel est alors creusé soit au viseur soit sur une broche guide dont l'extrémité est repérée au doigt, son orifice antérieur se situant à la partie antéro-interne de la métaphyse tibiale 3 à 4 cm en dessous de l'interligne articulaire.

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vessels (Medicine)
  • Nervous System
CONT

Microvascular decompression of the trigeminal nerve requires sharp dissection of all arachnoid around the trigeminal nerve and superior cerebellar artery. The most common vessel found is a rostroventral superior cerebellar artery loop, which compresses the trigeminal nerve either at the brainstem or distally.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Les boucles artérielles proviennent des collatérales de l'artère cérébelleuse supérieure ou plus rarement de l'artère cérébelleuse artéro-inférieure.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Crustaceans
DEF

The lower lip of an insect formed by the union of a pair of appendages homologous with the second maxillae of a crustacean. It consists of the fixed mentum and the movable prementum to which are attached laterally the 2 labial palps and distally the ligula. The latter, in a generalized insect such as the cockroach, consists of a pair of inner lobes or glossae and outer lobes or paraglossae. In some specialized mouth-parts such as those of the bee the ligula may be lengthened to form a tubular proboscis.

CONT

The mosquito has all six of its legs planted on the skin, and the bottom part of its proboscis, known as the labium, is folded back in a hairpin curve as it prepares to draw blood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Crustacés
DEF

Lèvre inférieure de la bouche des insectes mandibulés.

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Ear
DEF

The posterior, longer, and more curved of the two limbs that diverge from the neck of the stapes and are connected distally by the flattened oval plate, or base which is held to the fenestra vestibuli by ligaments.

Key term(s)
  • stapedial crura
  • crura
  • posterior limb of stapes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oreille
OBS

Étrier (stapes) - C'est l'osselet le plus petit et le plus léger [...] [Ses] branches antérieure et postérieure (crus anterius et posterius) forment l'arc stapédien, réunissant la tête à la base de l'étrier [...]

Key term(s)
  • branche postérieure du stapès

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Ear
DEF

The shorter and less curved of the two limbs that diverge from the neck of the stapes and are connected distally by the flattened oval plate, or base, which is held to the fenestra vestibuli by annular.

Key term(s)
  • stapedial crura
  • crura

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oreille
OBS

Étrier (stapes) - C'est l'osselet le plus petit et le plus léger [...]. [Ses] branches antérieure et postérieure (crus anterius et posterius) forment l'arc stapédien, réunissant la tête à la base de l'étrier [...].

Key term(s)
  • branche antérieure du stapès

Spanish

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Record 9 1998-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Lungs
DEF

alveolar saccules : The spaces into which the alveolar ducts open distally, and with which the alveoli communicate.

Key term(s)
  • air sac

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poumons
DEF

Chacun des culs-de-sac faisant suite aux canaux alvéolaires et dans lesquels s'ouvrent les alvéoles pulmonaires.

Spanish

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Record 10 1990-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

Small hollow elongate projection, distally closed or open... [on a bryozoan]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

[Il s'agit d'un de plusieurs] petits bâtonnets creux plus ou moins longs placés autour des zoécies et plus souvent de l'apertura [d'un Bryozoaire]

Spanish

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Record 11 1990-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

Subluxation of the head of the radius distally under the annular ligament occurring, in small children, by forcible traction on the radius.

OBS

Definition from DOMED, 1981, p. 425 and TUROR, 1984, p. 973.

OBS

... the arm remains limp at the side with the forearm in neutral position or partial pronation and the elbow about 20 to 30 degrees of full extension.

OBS

Goyrand’s injury: obsolete term.

OBS

Observation from MBIOL, 1986, vol. 1, p. 911.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Attitude en pronation irréductible de l'avant-bras, coude en extension sans lésion ostéo-articulaire, observée chez l'enfant de deux à cinq ans, et consécutive à une forte traction exercée sur le bras en élévation et en abduction.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Sistema musculoesquelético (Medicina)
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Record 12 1987-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crustaceans
DEF

A crustacean limb in which the protodite bears distally both endopodite and exopodite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crustacés

Spanish

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Record 13 1977-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

Growth association of(usually) biserial graptoloid rhabdosomes attached distally by their nemata around a common center.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Chez certains Graptolites, les] rhabdosomes [sont] groupés en colonies d'ordre plus élevé ("synrhabdosomes").

Spanish

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Record 14 1977-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is a] segment of [a crustacean] limb located next distally from [the] merus and joined to [the] prodopus proximally(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Certains Crustacés ont un] carpus court (...)

Spanish

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Record 15 1977-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[It is a] very slender tubular kenozooecium opening on [the] dorsal side of [the] zoarium with [the] axis of [the] tube directed obliquely upward(distally).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Il s'agit d'un de plusieurs] tubes accessoires à orifice oblique, opposés aux tubes zoéciaux [chez les Bryozoaires]

Spanish

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Record 16 1977-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A schizolophe is a brachiopod lophophore which is] indented anteromedially to define [a] pair of brachia which bear [a] row of paired filamentar appendages, at least distally(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Le] schizolophe [est le] stade du développement [d'un lophophore de Brachiopode] présentant deux lobes.

Spanish

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Record 17 1977-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A plectolophe is a] lophophore in which each brachium consists of [a] U-shaped side arm bearing [a] double row of paired filamentar appendages but terminating distally in [a] medially placed plano-spire normal to [the] commissural plane [of a brachiopod] and bearing [a] single row of paired appendages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Un] plectolophe [est un lophophore chez lequel] (...) un bras spiralé médian avec des cirres de chaque côté (...) apparaît (...) entre les deux lobes latéraux (...)

Spanish

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