tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 06 07:22:50 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: petqaD
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, December 06, 2013
>
> Klingon word: petqaD
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: a medical device for mending bones
> Source: Haynes Klingon Bird of Prey manual, p. 107, November 2012
"The surgeon typically injects a combined stimulant and pain
killer, before using a {petqaD} to bond broken bones in place
and a dermal regenerator to suture any wounds. Typical turn-
around times allow an injured crewman to return to his post
within seven minutes." (p. 107)
KGT 151: ... doctors spend a great deal of their time tending to critically wounded patients and relatively little time performing routine examinations or practicing preventive medicine.
Despite the considerable sophistication of Klingon technology, significant gaps exist in Klingon medical science, in part due to cultural biases that seriously injured warriors should be left to die or to carry out the *Hegh'bat* rather than live in shame and humiliation. (TNG "Ethics")
Sometimes called a "bone-knitter" in the Federation; cf.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bone-knitting_laser
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bone_regenerator
Some related words:
Hom bone (n)
melchoQ bone marrow (n)
'uD Haqtaj laser scalpel (n)
Sev bandage (n)
rIQ be injured (v)
rIQmoH injure (v)
QID wound (v)
QIH damage, cause damage (v)
ghor break (v)
vor cure (v)
tI' fix, repair (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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