There is no widely established ASL sign for "Mesothelioma." To discuss Mesothelioma in American Sign Language you can use a combination of signs and approaches including:
CANCERTHIN
CLASSIFIERS: Special handshapes and movements depicting (showing) what various aspects of Mesothelioma look like. See "Classifier-G"
Fingerspelling: You can use the ASL manual alphabet to spell out the word Mesothelioma.
See below for links to signs for information, lawsuit, prognosis, settlement, support, symptoms, and treatment.
A typical scenario where Mesothelioma might become a topic of conversation in sign language would be when a person who is Deaf has the disease and meets with a doctor to discuss diagnosis and treatment. An ASL interpreter may be called in (or linked up via technology) to interpret the conversation.
A way to handle the term Mesothelioma would be to sign something to the effect of:YOU HAVE DISEASE NAME M-E-S-O-T-H-E-L-I-O-M-A.
After spelling it out completely for the first time, you could use the sign "ABBREVIATE / summarize" and then spell M-E-S-O as a way of indicating that you are going to abbreviate the word to just "meso" instead of spelling it out.
Or after spelling out the word the first time you could sign "M" using a slight side to side wiggling movement and then sign SICK. After a few usages of this "M-SICK" sign combination you could drop the "SICK" and just use the wiggled "M" handshape and it would be understood to mean "Mesothelioma" for the rest of that conversation. (For example, if the Deaf person's Deaf husband or wife comes into the room later you will need to re-establish the meaning of that wiggling "M."
Also see:
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