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

hair

half-time

Hanks’ buffered saline

haploid

hapten

harmony

haze

head

hearing

heat (n, v)

heater

heating block

heavy

heterozygous

hexagon

hide

high

histidine

histone

holder

home page

homogenize

homogenous

homology

homozygous

horizontal

horseradish peroxidase

host (n)

hotspot

housekeeping

HPLC

human

humidity

hundredth

hybrid

hybridize

hybridization

hydrate (n)

hydrocortisone

hydrophilic

hydrophobic

Hz

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