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May 8, 2020 17:00
4 yrs ago
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German term

gegen das Ohr hin

German to English Medical Medical (general)
Nach 2 Jahren Auftreten von Hautflecken, Verfärbungen gegen das Ohr hin, nicht juckend, aber Patientin kratzt immer daran.

Can you help me translate this phrase [gegen das Ohr hin]?
Proposed translations (English)
2 +5 spreading toward the ear
3 +4 extending to the ear
4 to the region of (or to) the ear
Change log

May 8, 2020 20:11: Steffen Walter changed "Field (write-in)" from "gegen das Ohr hin" to "(none)"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): Chris Pr, Edith Kelly

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Discussion

Silke Walter May 8, 2020:
I don't translate into English, but it means in the direction of the ear. HTH

Proposed translations

+5
23 mins
Selected

spreading toward the ear

Discoloration spreasing toward the ear.
is one option.
Peer comment(s):
agree Kim Metzger
15 mins
Good morning!
agree philgoddard
1 hr
Be well.
agree Steffen Walter : "Zum Ohr hin" would be more natural German.
2 hrs
My the doc has something against ears :-)?
agree Harald Moelzer (medical-translator) : yes, indeed - hope, you are too!?
15 hrs
Still healthy and happy?// Absolutely! Be well.
agree Edith Kelly
17 hrs
How arev you doing?
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+4
1 hr

extending to the ear

"Gegen" and "hin" suggests movement and direction towards a certain point but that's not always the case. Many German speakers, less than elegantly, use similar phrases to describe vicinity, not movement. And that sentence doesn't seem to be worded unambiguously enough to determine that the area of discoloration is expanding.
Admittedly, you can also use spreading with the same meaning as extending, but then I would expect to be told from where to where as in "discoloration spreading form chin to ear".
Peer comment(s):
agree Steffen Walter : "Zum Ohr hin" would be more natural German.
1 hr
agree Lirka : yes, extending
3 hrs
agree Sarojini Seeneevassen
14 hrs
agree Edith Kelly
16 hrs
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10 hrs

to the region of (or to) the ear

One has to assume that the author is describing a real, actual situation; further, that the author assumes that the reader understands this. In such a real, actual situation the extent of the described irregularities is apt to be to the region of the ear and in some loci, possibly, in fact up to the ear.
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