Feb 14, 2019 21:36
5 yrs ago
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French term
la dose fait l’effet
French to English
Science
Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
toxicology
" Apparaît en effet rapidement l’insuffisance et l’inadaptation aux nanosubstances des méthodologies de la toxicologie et l’écotoxicologie. Le principe traditionnel fondé sur l’idée que « la dose fait l’effet », n’est pas valide à l’échelle nanométrique. "
From a social science paper on nanotechnology. Does anyone know if English uses an equivalent phrase to « la dose fait l’effet » or shall I translate it straight as something such as 'the dose makes the effect'?
From a social science paper on nanotechnology. Does anyone know if English uses an equivalent phrase to « la dose fait l’effet » or shall I translate it straight as something such as 'the dose makes the effect'?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +6 | the dose makes the poison |
david henrion
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| 4 | the idea that: even a small dosage change can create a very different result |
Eric Verdonck
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Change log
Feb 14, 2019 22:02: Platary (X) changed "Language pair" from "English to French" to "French to English"
Proposed translations
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the dose makes the poison
la véritable expression est "c'est la dose qui fait le poison" et on trouve beaucoup d'occurrences de la traduction littérale.
https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Dose_Makes_the_Poiso...
https://www.chemicalsafetyfacts.org/dose-makes-poison-galler...
https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Dose_Makes_the_Poiso...
https://www.chemicalsafetyfacts.org/dose-makes-poison-galler...
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Anton Konashenok
3 hrs
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| agree |
Charles Davis
: From Paracelsus (Dritte defensio), who actually said that only dose makes something not a poison: "Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die dosis machts, daß ein Ding kein Gift sei."
8 hrs
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| neutral |
Daryo
: OK, there is a similar expression, but it does not make it "the real one" automatically // same principle applies ALSO to positive effects, don't see the need to narrow it down to only "poisons"
10 hrs
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| agree |
writeaway
12 hrs
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| agree |
B D Finch
: I think Daryo misses the point, which is that substances that may be neutral or beneficial become toxic at a certain dosage threshold.
13 hrs
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| agree |
Eliza Hall
19 hrs
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| agree |
Michele Fauble
20 hrs
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6 hrs
Eric Verdonck
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the idea that: even a small dosage change can create a very different result
Could it mean that the traditional principle is based on this idea, but that it does not apply to the mentioned nanotechnology-level?
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