[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Got the book in front of me now. It's on page 107:

"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 turnaround times allow an injured crewman to return to his post within seven minutes."


This is in the segment labeled {HaqwI'}, which also claims that this word literally means "bone mender".

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From: Steven Boozer [sboozer at uchicago.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 20:20
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual

De'vID:
>> We have one possibly genuine {mu' chu'}, but it is in doubt
>> because the rest of the "Klingon" words in the body text are
>> non-Okrandian, so I don't know if that one was supplied by
>> Okrand or just happened to coincidentally match Okrandian
>> Klingon phonology.

Felix:
> I'm afraid I don't have the book in front of me, but the word is
> <petqaD>, which is a medical instrument used to mend bones.
>
> Fits the proper tlhIngan Hol template (unlike all the other new words
> in the book). Also - as Quvar pointed out to me - it contains a very
> okrandesque pun  ;)

IIRC these are called  bone-knitters, bone regenerators or osteo-regenerators in Trek.  Cf. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bone-knitting_laser and http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bone_regenerator



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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