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ILL-TIMED [4 records]

Record 1 2022-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Done or happening at a time that is not good or suitable

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Qui est fait ou qui survient au mauvais moment.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diplomacy
CONT

So said Ambassador to the United Nations... early in 1977, as he embarked on a policy of open mouth diplomacy that featured a number of ill-timed and poorly conceived outbursts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Diplomatie
CONT

[La révolution tunésienne] devait refermer la séquence de la diplomatie bavarde, de l'émotion [...] et c'est elle qui incarne une diplomatie quasi muette et inaudible.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Cancers and Oncology
DEF

An antineoplastic ..., used in the treatment of metastatic testicular and ovarian cancer.

CONT

Often taken in conjunction with a platinum-based [anticancer] drug called cisplatin, doxorubicin significantly depresses the body's concentration of white blood cells.... Women with ovarian cancer who receive optimally timed doses of doxorubicin and cisplatin are four times more likely to survive for five years than are women who receive the same drugs in ill-timed doses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Cancers et oncologie
DEF

Composé inorganique du platine, utilisé en thérapeutique, comme anticancéreux, sous forme de diamine dichloro-platine-cis. (Le médicament est employé en perfusion pour le traitement des tumeurs de la sphère génitale, de la vessie et de la prostate. Il est contre-indiqué en cas d'atteinte de la fonction rénale, et il est également toxique pour la moelle osseuse, l'oreille et le tube digestif.)

CONT

Le cis-diamine-dichloro-platinum (sel de platinum) a eu bien du mal à trouver sa place en clinique : sa toxicité rénale a semblé longtemps le disqualifier. Ce handicap, non pas supprimé, mais surmonté par son administration au milieu d'une cure de diurèse, ses indications semblent le rapprocher des agents alkylants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicamentos
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
DEF

Fármaco alquilante antineoplásico.

OBS

Utilizado para el tratamiento germinal de testículo, carcinoma de ovario y en otros tumores genitourinarios: cérvix, endometrio, carcinoma de pulmón microcítico y no microcítico, carcinoma de cabeza y cuello, sarcoma de tejidos blandos.

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Record 4 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • International Relations
  • Foreign Trade
  • International Law
Key term(s)
  • ill timed policy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Relations internationales
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Droit international

Spanish

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