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

damage (v)

dark

darkness

deaf

decade

decay (v)

decelerate

decimal

decline (v)

decompress

defend

defense

deficiency

deficient

deflate

degenerate

degradation

degrade

dehydrate

deionized

delay

delete

demonstrate

denature

denominator

deposit (n)

deposit (v)

deprive

derivative

destain

detector

detergent

determine

detoxify

development

dial

diatom

dice

differ

difference

differentiate

direct

disallow

disapprove

discriminate

dish

disinfect

diskette

dismiss

dismutate

disparity

disperse

disprove

dissociate

dissociation constant

distal

distilled

distinguish

distribute

distribution

disturb

diverge

divergence

divergent

divide

division

dizygote

DNA

DNase

dominant

donor

door

dorsal

doubling time

drench

drink

dry (v, adj)

dry ice

dryness

duo

duplicate (n, adj)

dust (n, v)

dysfunction

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