Glossary entry

Dutch term or phrase:

N-V-

English translation:

no nausea, no vomiting

Added to glossary by dmesnier
Aug 19, 2015 12:21
8 yrs ago
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Dutch term

N-V-

Dutch to English Medical Medical (general) Clinic Medical report abbreviation
Does anyone have an idea what this abbreviation stands for. I'm seeing this often in a serious of medical reports. It appears below:
Thanks for your help!

ANAMNESE
RvK/ Pijnlijke pols re
Sinds 3 dagen spontaan ontstane zwelling van de re pols ....................

Geen andere klachten. Nietziek, geen koorts, N-V-.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 no nausea, no vomiting
References
fwiw

Proposed translations

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no nausea, no vomiting

Geen andere klachten. Nietziek, geen koorts, N-V-.

No other symptoms/complaints.

Pt does not look ill, no fever, no nausea, no vomiting.


nausea (Latin) - misselijkheid (Dutch)

vomitus (Latin) - braken (Dutch)

Latin abbreviations may be used in Dutch

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Note added at 44 mins (2015-08-19 13:05:36 GMT)
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Writeaway, clearly you don't understand the language of medical reports.

It does not say NV

It says N- V-

N - The minus sign indicates N is negative --> No nausea
V - The minus sign indicates V is negative --> No vomiting

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Note added at 1 hr (2015-08-19 13:41:59 GMT)
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I would like to add, you can very easily infer from the context that N = - and V = -

Look at this:

Geen andere klachten. Niet ziek, geen koorts, N-V-.

Then look at this:

Geen andere klachten. Niet ziek, geen koorts, misselijkheid en braken.

Well this is strange, no other symptoms and nausea and vomiting ??

Sounds contradictory to me.
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : any solid refs? NV (no vomiting) would be English in any case, not Latin afaik. And Dutch does use lots of English. NEW: I just found that it is English (not Latin) and means nausea and vomiting. so "no" is apparently a dangerous mistranslation
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I would say read my answer: vomitus (Latin). // I would like to add I have translated hundreds of Dutch medical reports and I have seen many, many times: N-V-, so this is obvious to me. No refs needed. // See above.
agree Kitty Brussaard : FWIW, zie bijv. http://www.statusvoering.nl/statusvoering_PDA.pdf / De betekenis van dat streepje (minteken) wordt denk ik snel over het hoofd gezien als je niet vertrouwd bent met dit soort medisch jargon. Het overkwam mij in eerste instantie ook :-).
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Thank you, Kitty. Right, N nausea V vomitus Now guess what this minus sign refers to.
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Reference comments

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Reference:

fwiw

previously on Kudoz
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch_to_english/medical_general/5...

and here are English refs:
Is gabapentin effective for preventing delayed nausea and vomiting (NV)
http://meeting.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/short/24/18_suppl/18...

Apr 21, 2014 - Nausea and vomiting (NV) are still among the most common, ... The majority, if not all, researchers agree that the development of ANV is ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994039/

Mar 18, 2015 - ABSTRACT Nausea and vomiting (NV) related to DMSO affect ... ≤25) or vomiting, significantly fewer patients had no episodes of vomiting, no ...
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261374237_Are_orange...

Drugs and other treatments to prevent and control nausea and vomiting in ... Only 25 published reports concerned trials of treatments of nausea and vomiting (NV) ... No trials using an antihistamine have been published since 1977, apart from ...
http://www.nvp-volumes.org/p1_20.htm
Peer comments on this reference comment:

neutral Barend van Zadelhoff : It says N = negative and V = negative. I admit, though, your first reference is correct. Unfortunately, you did not understand it or more likely, did not carefully read it.
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