English translation of "ravalements" - "a bit of/some choking"

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209 months ago

Geea (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Medical
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	ravalements
Context:	Le bébé reçoit des biberons à raison de ### ml 6x/j. Il n'y a pas de fatigue mais rarement
Keywords:	...un peut d'incoordination lorsqu'il boit vite. Le lait sort alors par le nez. Il n'existe pas de régurgitations. On note parfois un peu de ravalements et de mâchonnements.

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209 months ago

trilinguallady wrote:

choke back, instead of swallowing it straight he chokes on it

My comment:

ravaler means to choke or to hold it back and stifle himself with it

My references:

Harraps Concise French Dicitonary

209 months ago

trilinguallady wrote:

deglutitions, forced swallowings

My comment:

action d'avaler de nouveau

209 months ago

trilinguallady wrote:

a bit of/some choking

My references:

Larousse Advanced French/English Dictionary

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209 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

unco-ordinated swallowing

My comment:

swallowing is a complex action where food or drink is initially taken into the anterior part of the buccal cavity and then passed back to the pharynx and oesophagus with the larynx closed, Babies are generally good but don't always get the sequence right and the milk then can pass upwards and appear through the nose.

209 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

reswallowing

My comment:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IBO0OPavxqEC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=ravalement+swallow&source=web&ots=EnvbHOAEYj&sig=-HxrRekZp_1zjR2PNmak0mb7mog&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result

209 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

some swallowing back

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