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

magnifier

maintenance

malfunction

manual

manuscript

margin

marker

masculine (adj)

mass

mass spectrometer

match (n, v)

matter

maximum

mean

measure

median

medium (n, adj)

meeting

mega

membrane

memory

meniscus

metabolic

metabolism

metabolite

metabolize

metal

metallic

meter

methanol

methionine

method

methylene chloride

metric

micelle

microbalance

microbial

microcentrifuge

microfilament

microfuge

microgram

micrometer

micromole

microscope

migrate

millennium

milligram

millimeter

millimole

million

millionth

mince

minimum

minus

mitochondria

mixer

mobility

mode

modification

modify

moist

molarity

mole

molecular

molecular weight

monitor

monozygote

motile

motor

multiply

muscle

music

mutagen

mutagenic

mutation

mycoplasma

mycotoxin

myopic

myotoxic

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