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English language (monolingual) [PRO] Medical - Medical: Cardiology / PAC | |||||||
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4 +1 | cause serious/grievous harm |
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5 | Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly |
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cause serious/grievous harm Explanation: literally, to lay waste ... one idea of how to translate. |
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Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly Explanation: Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. This is the literal as well as contextual meaning of the term. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 hrs (2009-04-24 16:20:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- 'In medicine, a shunt is a hole or passage which moves, or allows movement of fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; and acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical. Cardiac shunts may be described as right-to-left, left-to-right or bidirectional, or as systemic-to-pulmonary or pulmonary-to-systemic.' (Wikipedia) In this context the above means:because balloon rupture can cause great harm to (those) patients (who have) a right-to-left intracardial shunts the anestesiologist must use CO2 in the balloon in place of air. So obvious inference is 'devastate' means harm' and not 'shunt'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 hrs (2009-04-24 16:23:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Please read harm in the last line in single quotes. Example sentence(s):
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