Achille's tendon

Hindi translation: Achilles Nus/Pindika Kandra

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English term or phrase:Achille's tendon
Hindi translation:Achilles Nus/Pindika Kandra
Entered by: Rajan Chopra

16:06 May 15, 2004
English to Hindi translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
English term or phrase: Achille's tendon
Looking for an average word to describe it, so that it is easily understood by the average person in hindi or urdu.
Harinder Dhillon
Local time: 07:19
Achilles Nus
Explanation:
The Achilles Tendon is the tendon which connects the heel with the calf of the leg, and is the principal extensor of the foot.


This tendon joins the calf muscles to the bone in the heel.

This is a highly technical, complicated and uncommon term and it'd be better to transliterate the first half of the same. Of course, we can translate tendon as nus.

You can guess the complicacy and technicality of this term from its derivates:

Achilles heel = Bhedyaang, Marmaang

Achilles jerk = Gulf-pratikshep

I think that the common readers might need to consult glossaries to arrive at the intended meaning here. So, it would perhaps be better to transliterate Archilles here.

Hope it helps to some extent.





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Note added at 2004-05-16 03:09:08 (GMT)
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This may be spelled in Hindi as:

अकिलीज्र नस

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Note added at 2004-05-16 03:16:40 (GMT)
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Please read अकिलीज्र as अकिलीज़





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Note added at 2004-05-17 09:00:00 (GMT)
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Pindikaa-Kandraa - this is one of the exact substitutes for this typical medical term, but I am afraid it is not much common whereas you are looking for an average word. It is not always possible to find average words for highly technical expressions.

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Note added at 2004-05-17 14:22:19 (GMT)
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Pindikaa-Kandraa = पिंडिका-कंडरा
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Rajan Chopra
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Local time: 17:49
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Achilles Nus


Explanation:
The Achilles Tendon is the tendon which connects the heel with the calf of the leg, and is the principal extensor of the foot.


This tendon joins the calf muscles to the bone in the heel.

This is a highly technical, complicated and uncommon term and it'd be better to transliterate the first half of the same. Of course, we can translate tendon as nus.

You can guess the complicacy and technicality of this term from its derivates:

Achilles heel = Bhedyaang, Marmaang

Achilles jerk = Gulf-pratikshep

I think that the common readers might need to consult glossaries to arrive at the intended meaning here. So, it would perhaps be better to transliterate Archilles here.

Hope it helps to some extent.





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Note added at 2004-05-16 03:09:08 (GMT)
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This may be spelled in Hindi as:

अकिलीज्र नस

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Note added at 2004-05-16 03:16:40 (GMT)
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Please read अकिलीज्र as अकिलीज़





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Note added at 2004-05-17 09:00:00 (GMT)
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Pindikaa-Kandraa - this is one of the exact substitutes for this typical medical term, but I am afraid it is not much common whereas you are looking for an average word. It is not always possible to find average words for highly technical expressions.

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Note added at 2004-05-17 14:22:19 (GMT)
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Pindikaa-Kandraa = पिंडिका-कंडरा

Rajan Chopra
India
Local time: 17:49
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Grading comment
Was looking for a hindi term

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  satish krishna itikela: nice explanation
4 mins
  -> :o)

agree  Tahir
2 hrs
  -> :o)

neutral  nlingua: I know that you asked for a term an "average person" could figure out -- but I still want to mention this: as I recall the technical term (in Ayurveda) for tendon or ligament is "Snayu"
2 hrs
  -> Two of my lexicons (one of which includes authenticated medical glossary) mention this term i.e. tendon as :1. Kandra 2. Nus. Since the asker wants an average or common word, I felt it worthwhile to suggest Nus as it is easily understood

agree  Ravindra Godbole
12 hrs
  -> :o)
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