alicate conformador

English translation: modeling/bending/contouring pliers

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Portuguese term or phrase:alicate conformador
English translation:modeling/bending/contouring pliers
Entered by: liz askew

19:33 Jul 1, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Instruments
Portuguese term or phrase: alicate conformador
"Em caso de necessidade de conformação da miniplaca em relação a superfície óssea para microplacas de 1.5mm, somente o alicate conformador 1.5 e os alicates planos devem ser utilizados". As microplacas são aplicadas em fraturas ósseas.
Juliana Rala
Brazil
Local time: 17:03
modeling/bending pliers
Explanation:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BJIiEV2...

see page 23

Atlas of craniomaxillofacial osteosynthesis: miniplates, ... - Google Books Result
Franz Harle, Franz Härle, Maxime Champy, Bill ... - 1999 - Medical - 182 pages
4.3 Centre Drive Screws, 2 mm and 1.5 mm Mini Drills A successful osteosynthesis ... 4.5 and 4.6, including plate bending and modeling pliers, plate-holding ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3131164913...



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or

contouring pliers

Orthodontic Pliers / Dental Pliers - Dentalcompare
Band Removing Orthodontic Pliers · Bird Beak Orthodontic Pliers · Bond Removing Orthodontic Pliers · Contouring Orthodontic Pliers ...
www.dentalcompare.com/jump/.../Orthodontic-Pliers-Dental-Pl... - Cached

it definitely isn't "conforming/forming"

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-07-01 21:12:34 GMT)
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#
Forearm - Reduction & Fixation - Plates and screws - AO Surgery ...
Simple fractures are treated with anatomical reduction of the ulna and ... use bending pliers to contour the plate to fit the anatomy of the bone (radius). ...
www.aofoundation.org/.../surgery?...bone... - Cached
# [PDF]
LCP Distal Radius System 2.4. Dorsal and volar plates for ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
fracture pattern. Contour the plate to the bone's anatomy with the Bending Pliers. Preliminarily fix the plate by inserting a standard cortex screw ...
www.3033.dk/Synthes-Distal Radius Plate2-4plus2-7.pdf
#
Thumb - Reduction & Fixation - Plate fixation - Rolando fracture ...
If a conventional non-locking plate is used, additional bone graft from the ... Use bending pliers to contour the plate. Be careful to bend in between the ...
aofoundation.com/.../surgery?...bone...fracture...%20Rolando%20fracture... - Cached
#
Titanium-strip cranioplasty
by GA Blair - 1976 - Cited by 18 - Related articles
enough to overlie intact bone on each side of the fracture is shaped to the desired contour with the use of orthodontic pliers. With the ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1688525/.../brmedj0053...
#
Bone fracture reduction device and method of internal fixation of ...
A bone fracture reduction device for the internal fixation and ... When contouring a plate to fit a curved bone surface, circularly fitting screw holes may .... open fracture line) may be accomplished by the use of "Aderer" type pliers ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/4905679.html - Cached - Similar

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-07-01 21:14:36 GMT)
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as this is about bone fractures and microplates, I would choose

"bending pliers", FWIW.

Manual of internal fixation: techniques recommended by the AO-ASIF ... - Google Books Result
Maurice Edmond Müller, Martin Allgöwer ... - 1991 - Medical - 750 pages
Certain areas of bone, such as the pelvis around the acetabulum, ... See also f. d Hand-held bending pliers for contouring of the narrow DCPs. ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3540525238...
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:03
Grading comment
I'm sorry I took ages to answer. Thanks a lot!
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4 +1modeling/bending pliers
liz askew
4conforming plier
Gabriel Guzovsky
2forming plier
Clauwolf


  

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49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
forming plier


Explanation:
:) A guess

Clauwolf
Local time: 17:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you Caluwolf!

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
modeling/bending pliers


Explanation:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BJIiEV2...

see page 23

Atlas of craniomaxillofacial osteosynthesis: miniplates, ... - Google Books Result
Franz Harle, Franz Härle, Maxime Champy, Bill ... - 1999 - Medical - 182 pages
4.3 Centre Drive Screws, 2 mm and 1.5 mm Mini Drills A successful osteosynthesis ... 4.5 and 4.6, including plate bending and modeling pliers, plate-holding ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3131164913...



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Note added at 1 hr (2010-07-01 21:11:37 GMT)
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or

contouring pliers

Orthodontic Pliers / Dental Pliers - Dentalcompare
Band Removing Orthodontic Pliers · Bird Beak Orthodontic Pliers · Bond Removing Orthodontic Pliers · Contouring Orthodontic Pliers ...
www.dentalcompare.com/jump/.../Orthodontic-Pliers-Dental-Pl... - Cached

it definitely isn't "conforming/forming"

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-07-01 21:12:34 GMT)
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#
Forearm - Reduction & Fixation - Plates and screws - AO Surgery ...
Simple fractures are treated with anatomical reduction of the ulna and ... use bending pliers to contour the plate to fit the anatomy of the bone (radius). ...
www.aofoundation.org/.../surgery?...bone... - Cached
# [PDF]
LCP Distal Radius System 2.4. Dorsal and volar plates for ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
fracture pattern. Contour the plate to the bone's anatomy with the Bending Pliers. Preliminarily fix the plate by inserting a standard cortex screw ...
www.3033.dk/Synthes-Distal Radius Plate2-4plus2-7.pdf
#
Thumb - Reduction & Fixation - Plate fixation - Rolando fracture ...
If a conventional non-locking plate is used, additional bone graft from the ... Use bending pliers to contour the plate. Be careful to bend in between the ...
aofoundation.com/.../surgery?...bone...fracture...%20Rolando%20fracture... - Cached
#
Titanium-strip cranioplasty
by GA Blair - 1976 - Cited by 18 - Related articles
enough to overlie intact bone on each side of the fracture is shaped to the desired contour with the use of orthodontic pliers. With the ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1688525/.../brmedj0053...
#
Bone fracture reduction device and method of internal fixation of ...
A bone fracture reduction device for the internal fixation and ... When contouring a plate to fit a curved bone surface, circularly fitting screw holes may .... open fracture line) may be accomplished by the use of "Aderer" type pliers ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/4905679.html - Cached - Similar

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-07-01 21:14:36 GMT)
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as this is about bone fractures and microplates, I would choose

"bending pliers", FWIW.

Manual of internal fixation: techniques recommended by the AO-ASIF ... - Google Books Result
Maurice Edmond Müller, Martin Allgöwer ... - 1991 - Medical - 750 pages
Certain areas of bone, such as the pelvis around the acetabulum, ... See also f. d Hand-held bending pliers for contouring of the narrow DCPs. ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3540525238...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
I'm sorry I took ages to answer. Thanks a lot!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
7 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
conforming plier


Explanation:
É esse mesmo.
Os cirurgiões são carniceiros de luxo :) - as ferramentas utilizadas são as mesmas que as utilizadas por outras profissões para diferentes propósitos.
Geralmente esta levemente adaptada para o uso específico (obviamente) tanto na forma quanto nos materiais, mas é o mesmo conceito e nome...

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I didn't used pubmed or any serious medical resource, as Liz, to check for this... came from the guts and I found a plier with shape that seemed adequate to what I imagined these pliers would look like. FYI.


    Reference: http://www.riogrande.com/MemberArea/ProductPage.aspx?assetna...
Gabriel Guzovsky
Local time: 23:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in SpanishSpanish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your help!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  liz askew: Hi, your pair of pliers looks nothing like a medical instrument. The surgeon would probably be sued if he used these:) :) Saludos!//I am very sorry to hear that.
11 hrs
  -> Sadly, in some cities of Brazil these would actually be used by "surgeons"... :)
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