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Antonija  #215883  Sat, 15 Apr 06 12:26 PM

Hi,

I've seen the word medical preparat in many languages but not in English. It is even similar in Croatian. It has several meanings:  1) SOME KIND OF CHEMICAL COMPOUND WHICH IS TO BE TESTED,

2) CURE, MEDICINE

3) A SAMPLE OF DEAD MAN'S BODY ON WHICH STUDENTS OF MEDICINE PRACTICE.

Do you happen to know this word in English, because I cannot find translation.

Thank you

  
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Mister Micawber  #216374  Sun, 16 Apr 06 10:59 AM

I cannot vouch for the piece of cadaver, but otherwise, the on-line dictionaries just translate it as preparation.  Since it is Latin, however, it may be fine in English as well (among medicos and pharmacists).  I have a vague memory of seeing the word on a prescription once or twice.

  
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Antonija  #216417  Sun, 16 Apr 06 01:27 PM

Hello Mister Micawber,

Which word? preparat or preparation?

  
Mister Micawber  #216424  Sun, 16 Apr 06 01:49 PM

Preparat.

I think you can use the word without many qualms.  I can find it used in English on foreign-based websites, some of them apparently highly-respected scientific organizations:

This site is the open public library of pharmaceutical preparats. A resource is created at support of U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

Lactic acid bacteria preparats.

Pharmacy info from medical preparats. All info from drugs, pills and capsules. Medications pharmacy preparats.

The lifespan and dynamic of degenerative changes appearance under these factors will be investigated and compared to the effect of well known preparats which are used for Alzheimer's disease therapy.

The most commonly prescribed preparats are methadon and similar synthetic substitutes for heroin.

chromosome preparats were prepared from the bone
marrow of the sample by the method of Ford and
Hamerton’s (19) “Colchicine-Hypotonic-Citrate.
Food, preparats and supplements and are not taken under guarantee

Both preparats decreased concentration of MDA

Toxin-excreting glycoproteins and multiple drug resistance of tumor cells to chemopreparats
  
Anonymous  #216432  Sun, 16 Apr 06 02:36 PM
Thank you very much for the examples.
  
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