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

T150 flask

T25 flask

T75 flask

table

tachometer

tachymeter

tandem

tape (n, v)

task

taste (v)

technique

teflon

temperature

tera

teratogen

teratogenic

terminate

test (v)

test tube

tether (n)

tetrahedron

thin layer chromatography

third

thirtieth

thousandth

threonine

thromboxane

through

thymidine

tie

tile

time (n, v)

timer

tissue

ton

tone

touch (v)

toxic

toxin

trademark

trans

transcriptase

transcription

transduction

transfection

transfer

transferase

transform

transition

translation

translocate

transmission

transversion

tray

triangle

triangular

trim (adj)

trio

triplet

triplicate

troposphere

troubleshoot

true

try

trypsin

tryptophan

t-test

tubing (n)

tubule

turnover rate

tweezers

twentieth

twin

typical

tyrosine

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