New Century Pocket English-Chinese Medical Dictionary

Author: Hao Changjiang Guo Linxiang
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Publishing Date: 2000-10-01
Features: Through years of teaching medical English, we deeply felt the need for a concise, portable, and effective small English-Chinese medical dictionary that could complement classroom teaching and medical work, allowing users to consult it at any time. For this purpose, we selected approximately 8,000 common medical terms from the latest textbooks and dictionaries in various basic and clinical medical disciplines, along with some closely related adjectives and verbs, and compiled them into the New Century Pocket English-Chinese Medical Dictionary.
Many people complain that medical terminology is vast, with some words having long spellings and being difficult to memorize. In fact, medical terms are often composed of a relatively small number of elements, mostly derived from Greek and Latin roots, consisting of stems, affixes, and combining vowels. Longer words can be formed by combining these elements or multiple stems. Once you understand these elements, it becomes much easier to remember the spelling and meaning of the words.
For this reason, this dictionary includes common prefixes and suffixes used in medical English, as well as examples of irregular changes in medical terms, noun derivatives into adjectives, and verb derivatives into nouns. If readers can carefully study and familiarize themselves with the rules of word formation and derivation in medical English terminology, they can generalize and master a large number of words in a relatively short time, thereby improving their medical English proficiency.