euroasijská populace

English translation: population of Europe and Asia

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Czech term or phrase:	euroasijská populace
English translation:	population of Europe and Asia
Entered by:	Dylan Edwards

12:49 Aug 25, 2016

Czech to English translations [PRO]
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Czech term or phrase: euroasijská populace

This concerns an opioid analgesic, oxycodone:

U jedinců s deficitním metabolismem přes CYP2D6 (10-12% euroasijské populace) múže mít snížený analgetický účinek.

I translated it as 'Eurasian' and the client has got back to me and said 'we usually say Caucasian'.

I would like to know, firstly, whether 'euroasijský' is purely a geographical term in Czech, or can it be used in a racial/genetic sense?

Secondly, is it possible that the Czech word is misused here, and should a different term be used if they mean it in a racial/genetic sense?

Dylan Edwards KudoZ activity Questions: 1844 (8 open) (62 closed without grading) Answers: 1033 United Kingdom
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population of Europe and Asia

Explanation:
I do not believe it would make any sense to use "euroasijský" from a genetic standpoint, as there are marked differences between people on the two continents.
My suggestion stands on the assumption it is purely geographic.

I do not believe that "Caucasian" adequately expresses "euroasijský" at all: the Chinese, for one, are not Caucasian...

Selected response from:

Jiri Lonsky
Czech Republic
Local time: 19:21

Grading comment

Thank you. This is the clearest way of expressing it.

I don't think they mean 'Caucasian' here, or they would have used 'europoidní', as Elizabeth says.
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population of Europe and Asia

Jiri Lonsky

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Am I Caucasian/Caucasoid too?

Pavel Prudký

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population of Europe and Asia

Jiri Lonsky
Czech Republic
Local time: 19:21
Specializes in field
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English
PRO pts in category: 211

Grading comment

Thank you. This is the clearest way of expressing it.

I don't think they mean 'Caucasian' here, or they would have used 'europoidní', as Elizabeth says.

Reference comments

25 mins

Reference: Am I Caucasian/Caucasoid too?

Reference information:
Wow, I did not know that - see the green field under that link :-) Americans as Mongoloid :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

Pavel Prudký
Native speaker of:

Czech

Note to reference poster

Asker: I see what you mean! The whole of America is blue on that map - do you think they mean the Native Americans?

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