"to corticate"

15:19 Aug 26, 2021 

Bonjour,
Dans ce domaine le verbe "corticate" n'existe pas, par contre il y a le terme "decorticate/decortication" qui veut dire le retrait de l'os cortical et étant donné qu'aucune explication n'est fournie dans mon document, je n'ai pas pu l'utiliser.
j'ai opté pour le terme "extraire" parce qu'il est général.
Merci pour votre aide!

04:23 Aug 7, 2021 

Ce que je dis, Liz, c’est que le début de la phrase “remove some or all of the disc tissue” revient à dire, et englobe, “corticate, scrape and/or remove tissue, qui vient à la fin de cette même phrase. On peut decider, comme traducteur, de ne pas traduire les répétitions si elles sont inutiles dans un texte pragmatique.

09:01 Aug 4, 2021 

Also, we must translate "corticate, scrape and/or remove", we cannot edit the text.

09:00 Aug 4, 2021 

In that case kindly remove your unwarranted "disagree" :)

19:02 Aug 3, 2021 

You are probably right Liz. As I said, my answer was only based on my instinct, since "corticate" does not appear in any terminology reference. I also forgot to consider the possibility that it could be a silly typo, as it seems to be! What is certain is that we, translators, cannot indulge in guesswork at all. At this point, we absolutely must consult the author and ask him to clarify his intention.

Since “remove some or all of the disc tissue” comprehend the different forms of removal stated further, I would translate from the rephrased sentence below without the superfluous part “corticate, scrape and/or remove [which would solve the problem of translating “decorticate”]:

“The preparation instrument(s) can be employed to remove some or all of the disc tissue including the disc nucleus and fluids, adjacent tissues and/or bone tissue from the surfaces of endplates of the first and second vertebrae, as well as for aspiration and irrigation of the region according to the requirements of a particular surgical application."

09:35 Aug 3, 2021 

@Liz yes and this is why I suggested "removal of".

09:29 Aug 3, 2021 

I think it should read "decorticated"

Neurologic Manifestations: New Insights for the Healthcare ...https://books.google.co.uk › books
2013 · ‎Medical
Consequently, only one endplate can be decorticated at a time. Due to this limitation in their use, current endplate preparation instruments are not ideally ...

09:27 Aug 3, 2021 

I can find no instances of "corticate" except in the patent.

09:22 Aug 3, 2021 

No, "corticate" is a verb here.

17:16 Aug 2, 2021 

Bonjour Ghadir, il me semble que, selon mon instinct linguistique, l’auteur a oublié de mettre un « and to » devant le verbe « to scrape », de sorte que la phrase aurait dû se lire comme suit :
« The preparation instrument(s) can be employed to remove some or all of the disc tissue including the disc nucleus and fluids, adjacent tissues and/or bone, corticate, AND TO scrape and/or remove tissue from… »

À noter que « corticate » n’est pas un verbe, mais bien un adjectif (voulant dire en médecine « qui a un cortex, une couche périphérique ») employé comme substantif, à l’instar de beaucoup d’autres adjectifs anglais qui sont souvent substantivés. Il s’ajoute ainsi aux autres noms de l’énumération, c.-à-d., « disc tissue, disc nucleus and fluids, adjacent tissues and/or bone, corticate ».