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 Translation for 'ephedrine' from English to Polish
NOUN   ephedrine | -
chem.farm.
efedryna {f}
ephedrine
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Translation for 'ephedrine' from English to Polish

ephedrine
efedryna {f}chem.farm.
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Usage Examples English
  • In the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona tested positive for ephedrine.
  • In South Africa, ephedrine was moved to schedule 6 on 27 May 2008, which makes pure ephedrine tablets prescription only.
  • Jevtić was stripped of third place in 2002 New York City Marathon and received a public warning after testing positive for the banned drug ephedrine.
  • In January 2003, Brits tested positive for a banned substance ephedrine, which he claimed must have been in the energy supplement he took.
  • Health Canada has investigated the risks and benefits of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine/Ephedra.

  • Additionally, Ephedrine acts as an anorectic, or appetite-suppressing drug.
  • Ephedrine is the precursor of synthetic amphetamines.
  • Following Exum's revelations the IAAF acknowledged that at the 1988 Olympic Trials the USOC indeed followed the correct procedures in dealing with eight positive findings for ephedrine and ephedrine-related compounds in low concentration.
  • Of all ephedrine-related compounds, only ephedrine and pseudoephedrine produce the typical, stable violet color.
  • Changes to federal regulations in 1988 and throughout the 1990s enabled the DEA to more closely track the ephedrine and pseudoephedrine precursors.

  • Ephedrine/ethylmorphine (Lepheton) is a combination drug used as an antitussive. It consists of ethylmorphine (an opiate) and ephedrine (a sympathomimetic).
  • Illicit methamphetamine is more commonly made by the reduction of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, which produces the more active d-methamphetamine isomer.
  • In 1893, methamphetamine was first synthesised from ephedrine by Nagayoshi Nagai and in 1919, Akira Ogata was the first to synthesise methamphetamine in a crystallized form.
  • "Ephedra", a gymnosperm in the order Gnetales, is the natural source of ephedrine, the plant's principal alkaloid.
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