diphtheria

• n. [内科] ジフテリア

ギリシャ語のdiphthera、革、処理された革から。語源は不明だが、おそらくdip、浸す、浸す、浸す、からきている。病気の症状として喉に厚い革のような膜ができることから、このように呼ばれるようになった。

diphtheria

diphtheria: [19] The disease diphtheria is characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the throat which obstructs breathing, and when the French physician Pierre Bretonneau described it in the 1820s, he coined a name for it based on Greek diphthéra, which means ‘piece of leather’. Using the suffix -itis, denoting inflammation, he formed the modern Latin term diphtheritis (used in English until the 1850s) and its French equivalent diphthérit.

He subsequently substituted diphthérie, and this was borrowed into and established in English in the late 1850s when an epidemic of the disease (then also termed Boulogne sore throat, from its first having been observed in Boulogne) struck Britain.

diphtheria (n.)

from French diphthérie, coined 1857 by physician Pierre Bretonneau (1778-1862) from Greek diphthera "prepared hide, leather," which is of unknown origin; the disease so called for the tough membrane that forms in the throat. Bretonneau's earlier name for it was diphthérite, anglicized as diphtheritis (1826). Formerly known in England as the Boulogne sore throat, because it spread from France.

1. Parents are advised to have their children immunized against diphtheria .

親は子供に抗ジフテリアワクチンを接種させることを提案した。

2.The doctor diagnosed my illness as diphtheria .

先生は私の病気をジフテリアと診断した。

3.As diphtheria antitoxin is a foreign protein.

ジフテリア毒素は並列性蛋白質である。

4.The doctor diagnosed the illness as diphtheria .

医師はこの病気をジフテリアと診断した。

5.I ascertained the disease to be diphtheria .

この病気はジフテリアであることを確認した。