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

n

nail

nanogram

nanometer

nanomole

narrow (adj)

neck

needle

negative

nephrotoxic

nerve

nervous

network

neurotoxic

neutral

ninetieth

ninth

nitrate

nitrite

nitrocellulose

noise

non-parametric

non-specific

normality

Northern (RNA) blot

notebook

novel

nuclear

nucleotide

numerator

nut

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