Contraindication禁忌症
A contraindication is a clinical situation, condition, or patient characteristic in which a medicine, biologic, or medical device should not be used because the risks clearly outweigh the benefits in that group. In labeling and regulatory documentation, contraindications are usually placed prominently in prescribing information, package inserts, summary-of-product-characteristics documents, and instructions for use to warn prescribers and patients against unsafe use.
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Where this term appears
Translators encounter contraindications when localizing prescribing information, patient leaflets, and digital health content such as physician portals or e-labeling. Because this section often uses direct commands and prohibitions, the target language must preserve urgency and legal clarity without introducing softer language or conditions that the source text did not state.
Translation checks
A frequent error is rendering an absolute contraindication as a precaution or warning, which lowers the safety barrier and may allow use in a dangerous patient subgroup. Translators may also insert conditions such as 'unless advised by a doctor,' adding an exception that the approved label does not contain and shifting liability.
Chinese document application
Contraindication in context · IFU contraindications
- English source
- Do not use in the circumstances listed below.
- Chinese rendering to review
- 在以下所列情形下不得使用。
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Check the distinction in context
A contraindication, precaution and warning have different functions in an IFU. Retain the source category and do not weaken a prohibition into advice. Chinese punctuation and list structure should keep each condition attached to the action it restricts.
Check the returned Chinese file
Inspect the Chinese list structure and the source prohibition together. A condition attached to one list item must not appear to restrict every item, or disappear when the layout turns a paragraph into bullets.
Prepare the connected files
Send the complete IFU section and related label wording. Confirm approved patient-group terminology and request owner review of conflicting source categories.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check intended use, warnings, document versions and approved terminology with the project team. Translation supports documentation; it does not establish product approval or regulatory acceptance.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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