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Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / Name of ingredient | | Japanese term or phrase: デキストロメトルファンフェノールフタリン塩 | I'm translating several package inserts of Japanese drugs.
"デキストロメトルファンフェノールフタリン塩" is an active ingredient of a cough medicine, and I cannot find the English term of フェノールフタリン塩.
Does anyone know?
Thank you in advance. |
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| | dextromethorphane, phenolphthalinate | Explanation:
I am not a chemist, but as far as I can tell we are talking about two separate substances here. There actually seems to be a patent filled in the US (linked below) for a medicine containing these, in the same order too (could it be that you are looking at a Japanese version of the same document?).
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-09-06 04:22:43 GMT)
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Just as a note, the patent I mention uses the spelling "dextromethorphane" (which is why I kept it in my answer), but it seems most, if not all, other sources use "dextromethorphane" - it seems to me it's safe to assume the latter is the correct term in English (with the former being used in French), but you might want to double-check that.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-09-06 04:33:39 GMT)
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A bit more research shows that "dextromethorphan phenolphthalinate" might also be a valid (and single) substance: https://data.epo.org/publication-server/getpdf.jsp?pn=216102... (see "Antitussive and expectorant drugs" on page 5) I also missed it in the first link I posted - it's mentioned towards the end, in "Formulation 4)"
As I wrote before, I'm not a chemist, so do double-check everything I'm saying here. |
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| Grading comment Thank you.
I doublechecked "dextromethorphan phenolphthalinate" and I found it was the right term.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Udwul4yK4FcJ:www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/get_htext%3Fhtext%3Dbr08313.keg%26filedir%3Dfiles%26hier%3D2+%
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 dextromethorphane, phenolphthalinate
Explanation:
I am not a chemist, but as far as I can tell we are talking about two separate substances here. There actually seems to be a patent filled in the US (linked below) for a medicine containing these, in the same order too (could it be that you are looking at a Japanese version of the same document?).
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-09-06 04:22:43 GMT)
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Just as a note, the patent I mention uses the spelling "dextromethorphane" (which is why I kept it in my answer), but it seems most, if not all, other sources use "dextromethorphane" - it seems to me it's safe to assume the latter is the correct term in English (with the former being used in French), but you might want to double-check that.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-09-06 04:33:39 GMT)
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A bit more research shows that "dextromethorphan phenolphthalinate" might also be a valid (and single) substance: https://data.epo.org/publication-server/getpdf.jsp?pn=216102... (see "Antitussive and expectorant drugs" on page 5) I also missed it in the first link I posted - it's mentioned towards the end, in "Formulation 4)"
As I wrote before, I'm not a chemist, so do double-check everything I'm saying here.
Reference: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0224267.html
| | | Grading comment Thank you.
I doublechecked "dextromethorphan phenolphthalinate" and I found it was the right term.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Udwul4yK4FcJ:www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/get_htext%3Fhtext%3Dbr08313.keg%26filedir%3Dfiles%26hier%3D2+% |
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