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216 months ago

Gina W  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Medical

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

casserait toutes les courbes

Context:

La jeune patient s'est présentée pour avais concernant sa croissance.

Keywords:

Affection actuelle : La maman signale que l'enfant grandit très lentement. D'après les parents, l'enfant casserait progressivement toutes les courbes et tout le monde la dépasse en taille à l'école. L'appétit serait bon. Pas de trouble digestif. /// I understand the sense here, that this little girl not normal size, etc. for her age, but just want to know if this expression is translated literally as "is progressively breaking all the curves"...or, there is probably a better way to word this (right?).

 

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216 months ago

Aharon303  See profile wrote:

would brake all statistics

216 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

is definitely an outlier

My comment:

'courbes' refer to a statistical distribution here, so "outlier" conveys the meaning.

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216 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

is definitely an outlier

My comment:

'courbes' refer to a statistical distribution here, so "outlier" conveys the meaning.

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216 months ago

myrthe  See profile wrote:

I agree with Claude.

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