English to Somali Medical Terminology

[- Femme -]

Hi Guys. Need help with this --- I tried to search for other similar topics but I found nothing. [ Some of them you would have to say a whole sentence to get the point across -- I'm wondering if they have one/two word explanations.]

 

Kidney

Liver

Spleen

Muscle

Lungs

Arteries/Veins

Blood clot

Laceration/tear

Food Poisioning

Heart attack

Cancer

Edema

Depression

Blood Pressure

Uterus

Ovary

Gallbladder

Pancreas

Bladder

Obstruction

Arthritis

Failure (ex. kidney failure/heart failure)

 

Thanks. I'll think of more if you can help me with these.

[Abu-Salman]

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[Geel_jire]

Kidney = Kili

Liver = Beer

Spleen = beer yar or xameeti (this one im not sure about)

Muscle = Muruq

Lungs = sambabo

Arteries/Veins = halbowle / xidid

Blood clot = xinjir dhiig ah

Laceration/tear = dilaac / jeex

Food Poisioning = sun i.e wuu sumoobay

Heart attack = wadna istaag

Cancer = Saradaan ??? (no clue)

Edema = I dont know what this is

Depression = ??

Blood Pressure = dhiiga ayaa kacsan

Uterus = dont knwo of a clinical name in somali

Ovary =

Gallbladder = kaadi haysta

Pancreas = beer yar or xameeti .. or could be confusing with spleen not sure

 

Bladder = is this not the same as gall blader ?

 

Failure (ex. kidney failure/heart failure) = e.g kilyahaa fadhiistay

[nuune]

Try this thread

[Abu-Salman]

If I may try & correct few points:

 

Kidney: Kali

Cancer: Kanser is commonly used (but hardly understood as other than a serious disease I guess)

Edema: Barar i guess (like in legs with poor circulation or with an inflammation, trauma etc)

 

depression: Murugo or melancholy may best describe it in non-medical terms, this is culturally relative, as with other mental "medical pathologies"; pharmacological treatment distracting about the underlying cause, is very controversial and with serious side effects (just advise routinely proper diet, rest and social interaction and above all spirituality: prayers & Qur'aan)

 

Blood pressure: Dhiig kar is for hypertension

Bladder: Kaadi heysta.

Gallbladder: maybe beer yar, this is the one commonly removed and produce bile

Obstruction: Xidhid, or d-a-b-oolis

Failure: Fadhiisitaan, istaagid, ie wadnaha istaagey but preferably kalyahaa fadhiistay (since it is about a flow)

[NinBrown]

depression = walbahaar

anxiety = walwal

spleen= beer yare, gall bladder= xameeti... these two are commonly confused and its essential to differentiate it. beacuese...no spleen = big problem, no gallblader = no big deal.

uterus = minka

[Indhoos]

Gallblader = Xameeti

Spleen = Beer yaro

Ovary = Uubaanyo (mostl likely of Italian origin?)

Cancer = Kaankaro

arthritis = Roomatiisan

Failure = Howl gab (way howl gabeen)

[Nin-Yaaban]

Depression = soma aheen qofku markuu isku buuqo, AMA wareero isla hadlo?

[Fazliyah]

inflammation ? like someone has high inflammation in their blood work result how do you say that in Somali??

[Buuxo]

Inflamation= Caabuq 'Dhiigaaga wuxuu muginayaa in yaro caabuq' me thinks

[Abu-Salman]

Originally posted by NinBrown:

depression = walbahaar

I thought Walbahaar is commonly used in langage as Walwal or anxiety, restless apprehension in relation to a specific issue/event.

 

yet, isku buuqid or wareer signify a real mental disturbance like in schyzophrenia; interestingly enough, there are instances of remissions in that case, while medication with the usual assortments like Artan/Haldol/largact il etc only "calm" patients, not without serious side-effects (eg, prescribing the other one to counter the effect of the first drug).

 

At any rate, Western psychiatry is controversial and needs to be more evidence-based like the rest of more scientific medical specialties, instead of being mostly preoccupied with managing patients with business, ideological or political considerations running in parallel, ie the introduction of chlorpromazine (largactil) coincided with the closure of Victorian mental institutions...

[Fazliyah]

Thank you Buuxo laakiin I never heard of the word Caabuq is there another word ?? more like reer Xamar dialog

[xiinfaniin]

Depression = buufis

 

a word that correctly depicts the sense of mental inflation depression inflicts on its pateints

[xiinfaniin]

Caabuuq = barar

[Abu-Salman]

Xiin, lexical use, esp of unconventional words may be a bit chaotic.

 

I thought Buufis was used to depict paranoia too or the longing for emmigraton in refugee camps etc

 

Were I a clinician, I'd settle personally for Murugo or melancholy in cases of depression and give simple Islamic/common sense as a routine.Why medicalise or seek chemical answers to changing states of mind, as if the brain was not inside a person, itself evolving in a society, with possible unhelpful reaction to problematic issues?