An Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists, now available from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

The Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists is intended to build confidence in the use of English scientific language. The book lists terms that are in common use in science laboratories, translated into both simplified and complex Chinese. It also contains illustrations of equipment, labelled in both languages.

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Pronunciation Guide

This supplementary Web site provides a pronunciation guide for the terms covered in An Illustrated Chinese-English Guide for Biomedical Scientists. Click on a specific term to hear the English pronunciation.

List of Terms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, numbers

back

backcross

backward

bacterial

bacteriophage

balance

ballistic

band

bar graph

base

basic

bath

bathe

battery

begin

bench

beside

best

beta radiation

better

biannual

biennial

bifocal

billion

billionth

bind

binding

biochemical

bioinformatics

biological

biology

birth

blend (v)

blind

block (n)

block (v)

blood

board

bolt

book (n)

book (v)

book chapter

bottle

bound

branch (n)

break (v)

buffer (n)

bulb

butanol

byte

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