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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has developed quickly recent years outside the China especially in the US and more and more Chinese TCM doctors would like to practice the medicine at abroad. Based on the need of this, many Chinese doctors begin to improve their professional TCM English in order to meet the basic language requirements before they get the practice license in English-speaking countries. This book covers most common selected 1680 Traditional Chinese Medicine English vocabularies. All expressions are selected not only for NCCAOM and California exams but also for the clinical practice. The readers can grasp how to express TCM in English and know how English expressions mean in TCM. The book includes most often diseases, syndromes, and symptoms of Traditional Chinese Medicine in English. Also, western medical terms are attached after TCM terms, which can lead readers to know the same word in two ways. At the end, fourteen appendixes are provided that can give readers more useful information and tips about how to memorize TCM English vocabularies and what NCCAOM exams require.