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Humby knife

Japanese translation: ハンビー・ナイフ

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English term or phrase:Humby knife
Japanese translation:ハンビー・ナイフ
Entered by: tappi_k

10:54 Nov 23, 2004
English to Japanese translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Instruments / Skin graft
English term or phrase: Humby knife
Another name of a knife.
Mariko Kobayashi
Australia
Local time: 21:59
see my note
Explanation:
As nobody seems to be answering... this is just a suggestion, but when you look up in a medical dictionary (such as the one I list below, and look under the column 'knife'), you get a lot of different types of knives bearing names of their inventors. Now, amongst those knives listed, for instance Kirkland knife is usually called カークランド・ナイフ or カークランド鋏 in Japanese, and Goldman-Fox knife is ゴールドマン＝フォックス・ナイフ or　ゴールドマン＝フォックス・メス (both are used in dentistry and come in various sizes and shapes). So I think it is quite probable that there is no translation for Humby knife either other than just to call it ハンビー・ナイフ (or maybe ハンビー・メス, from what I could see from various sites with photographs of Humby knives, they are more like メス than 鋏).

just a suggestion but hope this gives you some idea...

http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzp...
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tappi_k
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:59
Grading comment
Thank you very much for your help.
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3 +1see my note
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1 day 21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
see my note


Explanation:
As nobody seems to be answering... this is just a suggestion, but when you look up in a medical dictionary (such as the one I list below, and look under the column 'knife'), you get a lot of different types of knives bearing names of their inventors. Now, amongst those knives listed, for instance Kirkland knife is usually called カークランド・ナイフ or カークランド鋏 in Japanese, and Goldman-Fox knife is ゴールドマン＝フォックス・ナイフ or　ゴールドマン＝フォックス・メス (both are used in dentistry and come in various sizes and shapes). So I think it is quite probable that there is no translation for Humby knife either other than just to call it ハンビー・ナイフ (or maybe ハンビー・メス, from what I could see from various sites with photographs of Humby knives, they are more like メス than 鋏).

just a suggestion but hope this gives you some idea...

http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzp...

tappi_k
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:59
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you very much for your help.

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agree  zwcorp
1 day 16 hrs
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