Medical terms

some online resources: Medical dictionary On-Line for Chinese (traditional Chinese / Big5), a collection of 31,000 of medical terms that can be searched but not browsed. Conversion of Chinese and English Hospital Terms (traditional Chinese / Big5), list of medical specialties

I just uploaded a vocabulary list with quite a number of psychology-related terms (1000+) from phobias and depression to obsession and psychoanalysis.. In addition to conditions, it also includes moods, feelings etc.

Goulniky, That's a nice list of vocab here. You just forgot an essential word for french people : the suppository 栓剂 (shuānjì) and that's 耳栓 (ears plug) 的 栓 But I hope 栓剂 is not supposed to plug anything. ;)

That's AWESOME, gouniky! Thanks a google-plx : ) That's a lot of work! I want to learn more medical terms because I found myself stumbling a lot this year when attempting to speak Mandarin with the occasional Chinese-speaking patient. It bugs me...get it, "bugs" me (germs=bugs) Ha!

some more: 骨折 gǔzhé fracture 扭伤 niǔshāng sprain 伤口 shāngkǒu wound 痤疮 cuóchuāng acne 皮疹 pízhěn skin rash 红疹 hóngzhěn German measles; rubella 丘疹 qiūzhěnpapule 起疹 qǐzhěn to have measles/rash 瘙疹 sàozhěn pruritus; itching rashes 湿疹 shīzhěn eczema 瘾疹 yǐnzhěn urticaria 梗塞 gěngsè infarction, clog 抽血 chōuxiě to draw blood 输血 shūxuè to transfuse blood, transfusion 避孕 bìyùn contraception 怀孕 huáiyùn to be pregnant 孕期 yùnqī pregnancy; gestation 宫外孕 gōngwàiyùn extra-uterine pregnancy [cì 次] 分娩 fēnmiǎn childbirth; parturition 身孕 shēnyùn n. pregnancy 剖腹产 pōufùchǎn Caesarean birth 月经期 yuèjīngqī menstrual period 停经期 tíngjīngqī menopause

Thanks, goulniky!

Cool. Might come in handy if the nurse is chinese here in Florida.

栓剂 is indeed listed in Wenlin / ABC and it reminded me that Wenlin has these tags, e.g. <med.> (medical), <comp.> (computers) <Budd.> (Buddhism) etc. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to use those tags to search for all related terms, let alone get a list of them all, don't know if anyone knows if it can be done?

Goulniky, what has your experience with Wenlin been? do you recommend it?

I strongly recommend Wenlin. The dictionary is not complete, they never are, but i's pretty extensive - Chinese>English that is, English>Chinese is not as good. It's way better than NJStar, though I occasionally use NJStar for it's annotation facility, where it extracts all word definitions from a document. One of Wenlin's strongest point is search, you can search all characters containing a set of components (not just radicals, any character element, including position, i.e. L|R or T/B). You can also search by number of strokes, frequency, and of course pinyin. You can also search all words starting with, or containing a specific character. Very useful, though not quite as sophisticated as PlecoDict, which from the same dictionary database allows you to use wildcards, e.g. ??孕 or ?孕? You can also search files/folders for specific text. Finally it has a number of conversion facilities, accented pinyin/numbered, simplified/traditional, hanzi>pinyin etc. It has some flashcard facility but I don't use them.

example of asymetrical C>E, E>C in Wenlin from a recent discussion : 斋-vegetarian for religious reasons 素-vegetarian in the Western sense searching Wenlin for 'vegetarian' returns : "vegetarian ∾adj. 素 sù; 纯素[純-] chúnsù" but searching for 斋 returns : "斋(F齋) [zhāi] vegetarian religious diet; give alms; room or building" and " b.f. ①vegetarian food chīzhāi ②studio shūzhāi ③students' dormitory ④〈trad.〉 school ⑤temple hostel ⑥〈Budd.〉 fast ⑦give alms (to a monk) ⑧purify (oneself) zhāijiè and 素 returns "素 [sù] plain, white; vegetarian; 因素 yīnsù factor, element 素 sù* b.f. ①plain; simple; quiet | Nǐ chuān de tài ∼ le. Your clothes are too plain. pǔsù ②white sùfú ③vegetarian chīsù ④native sùcái ⑤basic element yuánsù ⑥usually; habitually; always sùlái"

Btw, I've got a question about the hair. Is the chinese hair vocab more specific than english (or french to a lesser extent) ? 头发 are the hair on the head (cheveux). I don't think 头发 could name the facial hair. Then what are exactly 毛发 and 汗毛. 毛发 : Hair in general (poils) or facial hair (poils faciaux) ? 汗毛 : Hair of the body (not the head) or only the main hair for the elimination of sweat ?

I saw on a chinese blog "好孕珠" (hǎo yùnzhū). Does it mean something like "Happy pregnancy" ?