Practical Chinese-English Medical Vocabulary

Author: Tian Bin
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book, "Practical Chinese-English Medical Vocabulary," is compiled for medical students, healthcare professionals, medical researchers, translators, translation companies, and others. It is primarily designed to assist native Chinese speakers in finding corresponding English terms for Chinese medical terms and resolving various issues when writing English medical papers, abstracts, and engaging in academic communication. These issues include inaccurate or incorrect word usage, arbitrary coinages, improper word formation, non-standardization, and difficulties in finding medical terminology. The book aims to help surgeons, university students, graduate students, and other translators use words more correctly, accurately, and in a standardized manner when writing English papers, abstracts, and participating in academic exchanges. It also expands their vocabulary of medical terminology, improves their English proficiency in medicine, and avoids unreasonable coinages or formations of words.
During the compilation process, "Practical Chinese-English Medical Vocabulary" referred to many domestic and international medical dictionaries. Among the foreign dictionaries, there are the U.S. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, among others. Domestic dictionaries include Chinese-English Medical Vocabulary and Chinese-English Medical Dictionary, among others. The book includes nearly 80,000 terms related to surgery and its related fields. In addition to its strong professionalism, extensive vocabulary, and comprehensive entries, it also includes approximately 3,500 commonly used medical English phrases, specifically written to assist those preparing papers (abstracts) in their searches.
The appendices of this dictionary provide detailed English-Chinese translations of anatomical terms, department names, and English medical prefixes and suffixes.