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INSERTED TIP [7 records]

Record 1 2015-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
  • Cancers and Oncology
CONT

The patient undergoing radiofrequency ablation receives local anesthetic for pain control. A thin needle is inserted into the tumor, visualized by CT [computed tomogram] scan or MRI [magnetic resonance imaging], and electrical current is passed through the tip of the needle which becomes very hot and destroys the tumor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
  • Cancers et oncologie
DEF

Technique de traitement qui utilise un courant électrique alternatif à haute fréquence pour chauffer et détruire les cellules tumorales logées dans du tissu mou.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Servicing and Maintenance (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
  • Bodywork and Framework (Motor Vehicles)
CONT

The dent puller or slide hammer is a most useful tool for auto bodyworker. It has a long metal shaft on which a handle and a sliding weight are mounted. The weight moves up and down on the shaft, and there is a stop on the shaft near the handle. Either a screw or a hook attachment can be inserted in the tip.

OBS

dent puller; slide hammer: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Entretien et réparation (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
  • Carrosserie, caisse et châssis (Véhicules automobiles)
OBS

redresseur par inertie; marteau à inertie : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A slender narrow-bladed surgical instrument mounted on a handle used to perform a tenotomy.

OBS

[The] tenotomy knife has a blunt, rounded tip on the blade, which is curved slightly forward so that the knife can be inserted under the tendon without damage to local nerves and blood vessels and so that a cut can be made outwards without the tendon slipping off the knife.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Petit bistouri à lame courte et étroite, utilisé pour la ténotomie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental quirúrgico
DEF

Pequeño escalpelo de hoja corta y estrecha que se utiliza en las [secciones de tendones]

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Record 4 1987-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Tests (Construction)
CONT

... The vane shear test may be made. In this test, a rod with two or four vertical steel plates, or vanes, at the tip is inserted into the ground and rotated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Essais du sol (Construction)
CONT

Cet appareil (...) est employé pour mesurer la cohésion non drainée [d'un sol] en fonction de la profondeur. Il se compose d'une tige munie à son extrémité inférieure de deux palettes identiques et perpendiculaires.

Spanish

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Record 5 1981-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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Record 6 1979-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
CONT

An injection is usually administered with a glass syringe consisting of a barrel and a plunger.

CONT

When drawing the drug to be administered into the syringe, the tip, plunger and inside of the barrel of the syringe must not be contaminated.(...) After the needle is inserted, the plunger is drawn back;(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
CONT

La seringue est composée de deux parties: le cylindre et le piston. Le cylindre présente un embout auquel on adapte l'aiguille. (...) La capacité des seringues varie de 1 à 200 ml. Pour en vérifier l'étanchéité parfaite, on bouche l'embout et on tire sur le piston: on doit pouvoir sentir une force de résistance.

Spanish

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Record 7 1977-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the family Teredinidae have] shells greatly reduced, covering only [the] anterior tip of [a] long wormlike animal(...) [The] burrow usually(...) [has a] calcareous lining which varies greatly in thickness and is in some species divided or has septa at [the] distal end. [The] valves [are] divided into three parts(...). Condyles(...), [an] umbonal-ventral ridge and apophyses [are] prominent. [A] chondrophore and [a] small internal ligament [are] present. Siphons [are] separate or united, relatively short and with [a] pair of pallets inserted at [the] base which serve to close [the] end of [the] burrow when [the] siphons are withdrawn.(...) "? Cret., Paleoc.-Rec. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la famille des Teredinidae ont une] coquille de petite taille par rapport à l'animal, globuleuse, bâillante en avant et en arrière; [ils n'ont] pas de plaques accessoires, pas de dents; [ils ont] un ligament interne; un tube adventif long, droit ou courbé.

Spanish

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