肋骨核

17:57 Oct 26, 2009

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Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals

Japanese term or phrase: 肋骨核

I am doing a clinical trials translation and one of the effects being investigated is 化骨進行 - ossification or calcification. One of the physical structures observed is the 肋骨核. I know 肋骨to be the sternum, but I have not been able to find this particular combination in any regular dictionary or anatomical dictionary, google hit, etc. Sternum nucleus doesn't make sense to me (although it might be a valid anatomical term I'm not aware of). Has anyone encountered this phrase?

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angle of ribs / angulus costae / costal angle

matsuquin37

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angle of ribs / angulus costae / costal angle

Explanation:
I am pretty sure that it's a typo for 肋骨角. The last kanji '核' is pronounced 'kaku' and so is '角' which I think is the correct one.
Hope the link below will be helpful to you.

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Note added at 1 day23 hrs (2009-10-28 17:47:06 GMT)
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I see your concern but I still believe that it is a typo for 肋骨角. The reason is that I don't see any hits of 肋骨核 on google apart from your question and somebody talking about the nuclear missile. Another thing is that 骨核 is a medical term which means 'ossification centre' and because of the kanji '核' is used in the term and so the proofreader probably mistakingly thought that '肋骨核' is used the correct kanji.

肋骨角 is the angle of the costae and therefore it is very much related to the bone structure.

Incidentally, 肋骨 is costal bones (or ribs, costae) not the sternum, which is 胸骨, different bone.
Hope this will be OK.

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Note added at 2 days48 mins (2009-10-28 18:46:37 GMT)
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You're welcome. I'm glad that my answers helped you. This is a fantastic system that translators helping each other. When I have a translation question I'll come here straightaway!

Reference: http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E8%82%8B%E9%AA%A8%E8%A7%92

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Asker: I would readily agree if the term didn't appear several times in the document. One typo I can imagine, but the same typo in half a dozen spots either means that the proofreader was in a coma or the term might actually exist.

Asker: Thank you for your persuasive reply. And thank you also for helping me to catch the fact that I was mixing up my anatomical terms - straight in the translation, but not in memory!

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