aspirin

• n. アスピリン（解熱剤）

ドイツの商品名acetylierte Spirsaureから。 Acetylierte、語源はacid、酸と同じ。語源のspir, spiralについては、spiral, spiralを参照。スピルリナ属の植物から抽出される葉酸を指す。

aspirin

aspirin: [19] The word aspirin was coined in German towards the end of the 19th century. It is a condensed version of the term acetylierte spirs?ure ‘acetylated spiraeic acid’. Spiraeic acid is a former term for ‘salicylic acid’, from which aspirin is derived; its name comes from the spiraea, a plant of the rose family.
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aspirin (n.)

coined 1899 by German chemist Heinrich Dreser (1860-1924) in German as a trademark name, from Latin Spiraea (ulmaria) "meadow-sweet," the plant in whose flowers or leaves the processed acid in the medicine is naturally found, + common chemical ending -in (see -ine (2)). Spiraea (Tournefort, 1700) is from Latinized form of Greek speiraia "meadow-sweet," so called from the shape of its follicles (see spiral (adj.)). The initial -a- is to acknowledge acetylation; Dreser said the word was a contraction of acetylierte spirs?ure, the German name of the acid, which now is obsolete, replaced by salicylic acid.

Die Bezeichnung Aspirin ist abgeleitet aus "Spirs?ure" -- alter Name der Salicyls?ure und A = Acetyl; statt" Acetylirte Spirs?ure, kurzweg "Aspirin". [H, Dreser, "Pharmakologisches über Aspirin (Acetylsalicyls?ure)," in "Archiv für die Gesammte Physiologie des Menschen und der Thiere," 1899, p.307]

The custom of giving commercial names to medicinal products began in Germany in the late 19th century, when nascent pharmaceutical firms were discovering medical uses for common, easily made chemicals. To discourage competitors they would market the substance under a short trademarked name a doctor could remember, rather than the long chemical compound word. German law required prescriptions to be filled exactly as written.

1. Our doctor diagnosed a throat infection and prescribed antibiotic and junior aspirin .

私たちの医者は喉頭感染と診断し、抗生物質と少量のアスピリンを処方した。

2.I bandaged the leg up and gave her aspirin for the pain.

私は彼女の足を包帯で包み、アスピリンに痛みを止めた。

3.I don 't take any drugs whatsoever，except aspirin for colds.

風邪を引いたとき以外は何も飲みません。

4.He would take two aspirin and sprawl out on his bed.

彼はアスピリンを2錠食べ、手足を広げてベッドに横になった。

5. Aspirin apparently thins the blood and inhibits clotting.

アスピリンは血液を著しく希釈し、血液凝固を抑制することができる。