Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

(Funzioni di) serbatoio

English translation:

reservoir (functions)

Added to glossary by Sarah Cuminetti (X)
Feb 29, 2008 09:38
16 yrs ago
Italian term

(Funzioni di) serbatoio

Italian to English Medical Medical (general) colorectal cancer
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"La chirurgia si pone come uno strumento sempre più raffinato e preciso di cura, combinando un’aggressività generale più ridotta, una radicalità ben standardizzata, una conservazione delle ***funzioni sfinteriche, di serbatoio*** e sessuali sempre più ricercate."
Proposed translations (English)
4 reservoir (functions)

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Sarah Cuminetti (X) (asker) Feb 29, 2008:
Urinary? how about sphincteric, unirary functions?

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reservoir (functions)

Our aim was to assess the relationships among reporting the symptom, the reservoir functions of the colon and rectum, and the patients’ psychologic profile. ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016508506022633

Patients who are young adults, such as your patient, are continent, and do not have low rectal cancer or incurable colon cancer should be offered total proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. A J pouch is constructed to re-establish the reservoir functions that were performed by the rectum.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/440205


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Note added at 11 minute (2008-02-29 09:49:28 GMT)
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Continence is the result of a series of very complex and interdependent functions which involve both the colon (and the) small intestine, especially colonic water absorption function and colonic reservoir functions, in addition to rectal innervation and anal sphincteric control.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=14...
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