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氏
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Definitions
- 1. clan name
- 2. maiden name
Example Sentences
1 shown《施 氏 食獅史》
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Words Containing 氏
Gram negative (of bacteria)
Pap test (medicine)
The Tale of Genji
(bird species of China) Blyth's pipit (Anthus godlewskii)
see 鷹鵰|鹰雕[yīng diāo]
Brucella vaccine
pasteurization
Lushi county in Sanmenxia 三門峽|三门峡[sān mén xiá], Henan
Joseon, last Korean dynasty (1392-1910)
clan
the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏[yuè zhī] people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
Alzheimer's disease
Tourette syndrome
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾[kù]
Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
Ponzi (name)
Down syndrome
shigellosis
Parkinson's disease
Yuanshi county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[shí jiā zhuāng], Hebei
Rickettsia rickettsii
Heinz (name)
Réaumur temperature scale
(bird species of China) Bianchi's warbler (Seicercus valentini)
Pond's (brand of skin care products)
Richter magnitude scale
listeria bacillus
Pasteur
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
Rogowski coil
Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[yán dì] and creator of agriculture in China
Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基
Dufour gland (produces female sex hormone in bees)
Meniere's disease (loss of balance after stroke)
degrees Fahrenheit
Borrelia, genus of Spirochaete bacteria
Alzheimer's disease
alternative name for the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝
(bird species of China) Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
Francisella tularensis
Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
Rickettsia prowazekii
(bird species of China) Hume's treecreeper (Certhia manipurensis)
the Korean Yi or Lee Dynasty (1392-1910)
Lushi county in Sanmenxia 三門峽|三门峡[sān mén xiá], Henan
Richter (scale)
Yuanshi county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[shí jiā zhuāng], Hebei
see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[ā sī pèi ěr gé ěr]
Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
(bird species of China) Germain's swiftlet (Aerodramus germani)
°C (degrees Celsius)
Richter scale
Richter (scale)
(bird species of China) Hodgson's treecreeper (Certhia hodgsoni)
Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind)
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease CJD
Van de Graaff generator
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
Weishi county in Kaifeng 開封|开封[kāi fēng], Henan
Jane's defense weekly
Euclidean geometry
(bird species of China) White's thrush (Zoothera aurea)
zebra tilapia
formal wife of a Xiongnu chief during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
Dufour gland (produces female sex hormone in bees)
(bird species of China) Hume's bush warbler (Horornis brunnescens)
Alzheimer's disease
(bird species of China) Styan's grasshopper warbler (Locustella pleskei)
(bird species of China) Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx nisicolor)
Kaposi's sarcoma
red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii); Louisiana crawfish
Borrelia, genus of Spirochaete bacteria
Przevalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) of Central Asia
pearl oyster (genus Pinctada)
a branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people
(bird species of China) Hume's whitethroat (Sylvia althaea)
hyperbolic geometry
family tree
listeria bacillus
Ponzi scheme
Mehlis gland
Kellogg's (US food manufacturing company)
Victorinox (knife manufacturer)
Down's syndrome child
Fahrenheit
Crohn's disease
brucellosis (undulant fever or Mediterranean fever)
Apert syndrome
(bird species of China) Franklin's gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
Celsius
(bird species of China) South Polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Salmonella
(bird species of China) Godlewski's bunting (Emberiza godlewskii)
lit. “Mr. Lü's Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhū zǐ bǎi jiā], compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of Qin Dynasty 秦代[qín dài] Chancellor Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦[Lu:3 bù wéi]
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Suirenshi, legendary inventor of fire
Brucella (infectious disease)
anonymous (e.g. author, donor etc)
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
native
Addison's disease
Roche
ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
Gilbert's syndrome
(bird species of China) Tickell's thrush (Turdus unicolor)
Mr Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[zuǒ qiū míng]
Cherskii's thicklip gudgeon (Sarcocheilichthys czerskii), a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Amur River basin
Euclid
salmonella typhimurium
islets of Langerhans (medicine)
Klebsiella
another name for 伏羲[fú xī], consort of 女媧|女娲[Nu:3 wā]
Mr Gram
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing
Wiman Korea (195-108 BC), historical kingdom in Manchuria, Liaoning and North Korea
Wade-Giles transliteration scheme for Chinese
(bird species of China) Whistler's warbler (Seicercus whistleri)
Weishi county in Kaifeng 開封|开封[kāi fēng], Henan
Down's syndrome
Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies
Mr Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[zuǒ qiū míng]
(bird species of China) Blyth's reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum)
family name