Zhongshan English-Chinese Medical Dictionary

Author: Wang Xiaoying
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Contains 140,000 medical terms in total, including over 9,000 newly added terms. Uses the new International Phonetic Alphabet (15th edition), marking American pronunciation and syllable division. The terms are based on the standards of the National Commission on Technical Terminology and the National Pharmacopoeia Commission, with annotations such as "Name Commission" and "Pharmacopoeia" marked above. Translation notes include medical subject headings, foreign terms, and sources of pharmaceutical names. Entries are arranged in order of Chinese pinyin and provide both pinyin and stroke order for, facilitating easy reference. A "character head hint" is designed for disyllabic characters to help readers find them.