Re: Latin Term in German text

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> The term " Decursus morbi: " appears a few times in a text I recently

> translated from German to English. In the context it might simply mean

> " medical report: " Is this correct? I left it untranslated.

Hi Shane:

Perhaps this should read " de cursus morbi " ? meaning " (report) on the course

of

the disease " (my Latin is a bit rusty).

Ursula

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>>The term " Decursus morbi: " appears a few times in a text I recently

translated from German to English. In the context it might simply mean

" medical report: " Is this correct? I left it untranslated.

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It means 'progress / outcome of the disease/case.'

In medicine you have the 'status presens' - what you find when you first

see and examine the patient, the diagnosis, and everything that happens

afterwards is called the decursus. Morbi comes from morbus, disease, and

means 'of the disease'.

Hartelijke groeten * Bart *