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

safe

safety glasses

sample (n, v)

satellite

save

scalp

scalpel

scanner

scanning

scientific notation

scissors

score (v)

scrape

scraper

screw

screw cap

screwdriver

SDS PAGE

second

secondary

section (n, v)

secure (adj, v)

security

seed (n, v)

seminar

send

sensitive

separate (adj)

separate (v)

sequence (n, v)

serine

serum

server

service (n)

seventh

seventieth

shaft

shake (v)

shaker

sham

shelf

shield (n, v)

shielded

shift (v)

shoe cover

show (v)

shower (n)

shrink

sigmoidal

signal (n, adj, v)

significance

similar

simultaneous

sixth

sixtieth

sleeve

slice (n, v)

slick

slide (n, v)

slippery

slit

slot (n, v)

smell

snap cap

software hardware

soggy

solvent

sonicator

sort

sound (n, adj)

Southern (DNA) blot

spark

spatula

speaker

specific

specimen

spectrophotometer

spectroscopy

spend

sperm

splice

spore

spot (n, v)

square

square root

stage

stain (n, v)

stamen

standard

standard deviation

standard error

staple (n)

start (v)

starve

statistical significance

statistics

steam (n)

sterile

sterile hood

sterilize

stir

stool

stop

strand (n, v)

stratosphere

stress (n, v)

sublimate

subtract

supernatant

superoxide

supine

supplement

supplementation

support (v)

susceptibility

swell

swinging bucket

symposium

synchronize

synergy

synthase

synthesis

synthetase

synthetic

syringe

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