Thread:TRon69-SAO/@comment-3250527-20140827232818/@comment-6697950-20140828071638

There was a reason why I added that note about "only applying to Japanese hospitals". "German medical term" may actually mean "a medical term derived from German" in this case. Or Reki just doesn't know that the word isn't a term in Germany. Either way, I've heard that there was a Japanese nurse who used the word "sterben" in her blog, so I figured that it may only be used as a term in Japanese hospitals. Shoichi's article only states that "sterben" is German for "to die", as it's the only thing that we can confirm.

And yes, I did a search for シュピーゲル a few days ago and the Japanese wikipedia said that it is supposed to be "Spiegel", a German word for mirror. Though, I haven't added that to the article yet.