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silverweb

(16,402 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 10:46 PM Jan 2012

Never mind.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm doing a job in which a Spanish-speaking patient refers to an illegal inhalant as "tenieblas" (?) or something similar sounding.

The doctor refers to it as "paint thinner," but I'm not finding a translation that fits. The word may be street slang, I imagine.

Help, please?


Also posted in the Lounge, where someone helped very quickly.

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