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I'm working on translating a termination letter and I'm stuck on the term "razmaz, u razmazima." It’s giving me trouble. Can anyone help me out with the English equivalent? I'm currently translating this into Italian...

Thanks!

rowdylynx38 said:I'm working on translating a discharge summary and I'm stuck on the term "smear" and its plural form. Can anyone help me out with the English side of things? I'm translating this into Italian...

Thanks!

In English, it's "smear"👍
In Italian, I'm getting "macchia" or "sbaffo," but I'm really not sure if those actually work as synonyms within medical jargon.🤷

Thanks 🙂

But looking through medical texts in Italian—at least for now—I can't find any mention of the term "macchia" being used in a clinical sense, unless we're talking about skin spots or blemishes. 😢

rowdylynx38 said:Thanks, 🙂

But looking through Italian medical texts—at least the ones I can find—I’m not seeing the term "macchia" used in a clinical sense, unless we're just talking about skin spots or blemishes. 😢

Anyway, I did dig up this phrase: sbavatura cervicale, which translates to an cervical smear or basically a Pap smear.

Thanks 🙏 🙏 🙏

p.s. I was out of town, so I'm just now getting around to saying thanks 🙂