pesante

English translation: demanding

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Italian term or phrase: pesante
English translation:demanding
Entered by: Anna V

12:12 Oct 6, 2011
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Italian term or phrase: pesante
as in "si è dovuto sottoporre a un trattamento pesante che gli ha imposto nuovi prospettive...."

registro abbastanza formale, direi
Anna V
demanding
Explanation:
può andare?

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Note added at 3 hrs (2011-10-06 16:10:54 GMT)
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o addirittura challenging, ma per me demanding ci sta bene
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luskie
Local time: 16:18
Grading comment
thank you
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1harsh drug therapy
casper (X)
3 +1demanding
luskie
4intensive
Lirka
3high-dose (treatment
dandamesh
3strenuous
BEVERLY OATES HREHOROW
3tedious
liz askew


Discussion entries: 3





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(trattamento) pesante
high-dose (treatment


Explanation:
Potrebbe fare al caso?

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Note added at 8 mins (2011-10-06 12:20:49 GMT)
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http://www.canceradvice.co.uk/glossary/high-dose-therapy/

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si, sono stata frettolosa, alla luce delle nuove osservazioni allora forse potrebbe andare proprio heavy
Care of the child facing death - Risultati da Google Libribooks.google.it/books?isbn=0710078633...
Lindy Burton - 1974 - Family & Relationships - 225 pagine
a heavy treatment regime Lindy Burton Diagnosis is the hopeful search for a way out: but the setting forth on the way which one discovers and the ...


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scusa, il link di sopra
http://books.google.it/books?id=vtY9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=PA7...

dandamesh
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 204
Notes to answerer
Asker: Grazie, dandamesh, ma direi che in questo contesto non va bene. In oncologia la "terapia ad alte dosi"è una cosa molto specifica, a cui si sottopone una relativam. bassa percentuale di pazienti. Qui si parla di malati in generale, non è detto (anzi, è più probabile che non) si siano sottoposti all' "alte dosi". ma è certo che tutti abbiano dovuto sopportare una terapia "pesante": non riesco a trovare un sinonimo neanche in italiano, scusa!

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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(trattamento) pesante
strenuous


Explanation:
I think the verb sottoporre gives the idea

BEVERLY OATES HREHOROW
Ireland
Local time: 15:18
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Native speaker of: English
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(trattamento) pesante
harsh drug therapy


Explanation:
...may fit, given the sparse context ("preciso che si tratta di trattamenti in larga parte farmacologici")

casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 100
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Asker: thank you


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agree  Shera Lyn Parpia
19 hrs
  -> Thank you, Shera
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(trattamento) pesante
demanding


Explanation:
può andare?

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Note added at 3 hrs (2011-10-06 16:10:54 GMT)
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o addirittura challenging, ma per me demanding ci sta bene

luskie
Local time: 16:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 196
Grading comment
thank you
Notes to answerer
Asker: thank you


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  dandamesh: uhm, demanding mi piace, anche se non s'è capito bene se l'affermazione sia soggettiva od oggettiva
19 hrs
  -> grazie danda! io l'ho inteso proprio come l'autosuggerimento dell'asker, e infatti burdensome mi era anche venuto in mente, ma non mi sembra adatto al contesto non so perché e ho pensato che una cosa burdensome è appunto demanding
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1 day 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
tedious


Explanation:
Doobay Dialysis Centre a noteworthy achievement
www.guyanachronicleonline.com/.../index.php?...dialysis...
20 Sep 2011 – Dialysis, as is now common knowledge, is a tedious and expensive medical procedure, ... This treatment most people cannot afford. ...

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Raccolta fondi per la ricerca contro le malattie renali - Liberitutti ...
www.liberituttionlus.org/fondi_malattie_renali.htm - Translate this page
La DIALISI è un trattamento pesante, che consiste nel depurare il sangue al posto dei reni. Solo un trapianto renale riuscito permette, per coloro che possono ...


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Dropsy, dialysis, transplant: a short history of failing kidneys - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0801887348...Steven Jay Peitzman - 2007 - Medical - 213 pages
The fifth, or even fourth, hour of hemodialysis becomes for many of those needing this treatment tedious almost beyond endurance, and for some brings muscle ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:18
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Asker: thank you

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2 days 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
intensive


Explanation:
I'd go with the more neutral 'intensive therapy" rather than 'burdensome' which has only a negative connotation. Because they talk about new perspectives, I would stay away from the negativity...

Lirka
Austria
Local time: 16:18
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 572
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Asker: thank you

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