novocain
['nəuvəkein]
英語の語源
- novocain (n.)
- also novocaine, 1905, originally a trademark name for procaine (by Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst am Main, Germany), from comb. form of Latin novus "new" (see new) + -caine, abstracted from cocaine. As a local anaesthetic, it began as a substitute for cocaine.
例文
- 1. The play was written with a pen dipped into Novocain .
- この脚本は人を傷つけない態度で書かれている。
- 2.His gums were dead from the novocain .
- 彼の歯肉は麻酔剤の使用によって知覚を失った。
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