Translation of "tipóia" to English language:
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| Teve uma avulsão braquial, então os nervos foram cortados e o braço foi paralisado, pendurado numa tipóia por um ano, e então amputado | He had a brachial avulsion, so the nerves were cut and the arm was paralyzed, lying in a sling for a year, and then the arm was amputated. |
| Quando olhei pro prontuário e vi que eles na verdade tiveram o braço real, e o dano no nervo, e a paralisia do braço real pendurado numa tipóia por meses esperando a amputação e essa dor vai parar no braço fantasma | When I looked at the case sheet, I found that they had an actual arm, and the nerves supplying the arm had been cut, and the actual arm had been paralyzed, and lying in a sling for several months before the amputation, and this pain then gets carried over into the phantom itself. |
