Mieko Kawakamiの 'Breasts and Eggs' を読んでいます。
At first Makiko and all the other hostesses treaded lightly, since no one had the nerve to bring it up, but pretty soon the girl was telling everyone about the place she had her eyelids done and what it cost, or where she went to have the hyaluronic acid treatment for her chin, or where she went to have her nose remodeled.
"hyaluronic acid" はヒアルロン酸の事だと思いますが、スペルが日本語のヒアルロンとはかなり違っているので辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: a viscous polysaccharide with important lubricating properties, present, for example, in the synovial fluid in joints
・Wiktionary: (organic chemistry, biochemistry) A mucopolysaccharide (a kind of polymer) that forms a gel-like substance within animal connective tissue.
・Vocabulary.com: a viscous mucopolysaccharide found in the connective tissue space and the synovial fluid of movable joints and the humors of the eye; a cementing and protective substance
英語の発音は次の辞書(Merriam-Webster)で聴けますのでリンクを付けて置きました。日本語のヒアルロン酸はドイツ語から来たのでしょうか?
At first Makiko and all the other hostesses treaded lightly, since no one had the nerve to bring it up, but pretty soon the girl was telling everyone about the place she had her eyelids done and what it cost, or where she went to have the hyaluronic acid treatment for her chin, or where she went to have her nose remodeled.
"hyaluronic acid" はヒアルロン酸の事だと思いますが、スペルが日本語のヒアルロンとはかなり違っているので辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: a viscous polysaccharide with important lubricating properties, present, for example, in the synovial fluid in joints
・Wiktionary: (organic chemistry, biochemistry) A mucopolysaccharide (a kind of polymer) that forms a gel-like substance within animal connective tissue.
・Vocabulary.com: a viscous mucopolysaccharide found in the connective tissue space and the synovial fluid of movable joints and the humors of the eye; a cementing and protective substance
英語の発音は次の辞書(Merriam-Webster)で聴けますのでリンクを付けて置きました。日本語のヒアルロン酸はドイツ語から来たのでしょうか?