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Learn Neurological Symptoms in Spanish!

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Join Luis and me as we practice neurological symptoms in Spanish. We will learn helpful vocabulary for discussing headaches, strokes, head trauma, seizures, and more. In the next member lesson, we will use this vocabulary in questions.

Watch the video version of this lesson on YouTube.

Member at docmolly.com? Access this lesson within our History and Exam course to download the PDF, take the Quiz, and mark it complete.

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Headache

1:31

El dolor de cabeza

Severe headache

La jaqueca

Migraine

La migraña, la jaqueca

Neck stiffness

La rigidez en el cuello

RIGIDEZ is a useful word when speaking of stiffness in the muscles and joints. ¿Ha notado rigidez muscular?

Changes in vision

Los cambios en la vista, los cambios en la visión.

Sensation

3:01

Feeling or sensitivity

La sensibilidad

When referring to a sensation, we use LA SENSACIÓN. When referring to the ability to feel or sensitivity, we use LA SENSIBILIDAD.
Do you have feeling in your arm? ¿Tiene sensibilidad en el brazo?

Light sensitivity

La sensibilidad a la luz

Numbness

El adormecimiento, el entumecimiento

Numb

Adormecido(a), entumecido(a)

When referring to someone who is non-binary, you used the ending E, Thus, numb becomes ADORMECIDE, ENTUMECIDE.

Tingling

El hormigueo

And this comes from the word for ant HORMIGA.

Balance

5:26

Balance problems

Los problemas de equilibrio

Unstable

Inestable

The adjective for unstable in Spanish is gender neutral.

Vertigo

El vértigo

Dizziness

Los mareos, el mareo

Dizzy

Mareado(a)

Weakness

6:41

Weakness

La debilidad

Weak

Débil

The adjective for weak in Spanish is neutral and does not change based on gender.

Fatigue

La fatiga, el cansancio

Sleepiness or drowsiness

El sueño, la somnolencia

Drowsy

Somnoliento(a)

Impaired Cognition

8:03

Hallucinations

Las alucinaciones

Confusion

La confusión

Confused

Confundido(a)

Difficulty remembering things

La dificultad para recordar cosas

Head Trauma

9:05

Blow to the head

El golpe en la cabeza

To hit one’s head

Golpearse la cabeza

When speaking of accidents or injuries such as breaking a leg or hitting your head, we use the pronominal form of the verb. Romperse la pierna. Golpearse la cabeza. He broke his leg. Se rompió la pierna. Oh, I hit my head. Me golpeé la cabeza.

To lose consciousness

Perder el conocimiento, perder la consciencia

To faint

Desmayarse

Note that this is a pronominal verb. I faint. Me desmayo.

Concussion

La conmoción cerebral, la contusión cerebral

We also use the word CONTUSIÓN to refer to bruises or contusions in other parts of the body. Sufrió una contusión en el muslo.

Seizures

11:26

Seizure

El ataque convulsivo

Convulsions, seizures

Las convulsiones

Gloria, my teacher from Mexico, recommends using CONVULSIONES in its plural form, as it may sound weird to ask someone, ¿Ha tenido alguna vez una convulsión? To Gloria, this sounds like we’re asking about one convulsion of the body rather than a series of convulsions that make up a seizure. In this case, Gloria suggested. Ha tenido alguna vez convulsiones? That being said, my teachers outside of Mexico have told me that using una convulsión to refer to a seizure is perfectly fine.

To convulse or seize

Convulsionar

Muscular spasms

Los espasmos musculares

Repetitive movements

Los movimientos repetitivos

Involuntary movements

Los movimientos involuntarios

To stare into space or to stare blankly

Estar con la mirada perdida

Tremor

El temblor

To shake or tremble

Temblar

To lose bladder control

Perder el control de la vejiga

To lose bowel control

Perder el control intestinal, perder el control de los intestinos

To bite one’s tongue

Morderse la lengua

So when we perform an action on ourselves, we use the pronominal verb, MORDERSE. followed by the body part, LA LENGUA. I wash my hands. Me lavo las manos.


Gracias por estudiar español médico con nosotros.

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Join Luis and me as we practice neurological symptoms in Spanish. We will learn helpful vocabulary for discussing headaches, strokes, head trauma, seizures, and more. In the next member lesson, we will use this vocabulary in questions.

Watch the video version of this lesson on YouTube.

Member at docmolly.com? Access this lesson within our History and Exam course to download the PDF, take the Quiz, and mark it complete.

Master Medical Spanish With Us!

Become a member and get access to ALL our Medical Spanish lessons!
Sign up for our History and Exam Course.

Headache

1:31

El dolor de cabeza

Severe headache

La jaqueca

Migraine

La migraña, la jaqueca

Neck stiffness

La rigidez en el cuello

RIGIDEZ is a useful word when speaking of stiffness in the muscles and joints. ¿Ha notado rigidez muscular?

Changes in vision

Los cambios en la vista, los cambios en la visión.

Sensation

3:01

Feeling or sensitivity

La sensibilidad

When referring to a sensation, we use LA SENSACIÓN. When referring to the ability to feel or sensitivity, we use LA SENSIBILIDAD.
Do you have feeling in your arm? ¿Tiene sensibilidad en el brazo?

Light sensitivity

La sensibilidad a la luz

Numbness

El adormecimiento, el entumecimiento

Numb

Adormecido(a), entumecido(a)

When referring to someone who is non-binary, you used the ending E, Thus, numb becomes ADORMECIDE, ENTUMECIDE.

Tingling

El hormigueo

And this comes from the word for ant HORMIGA.

Balance

5:26

Balance problems

Los problemas de equilibrio

Unstable

Inestable

The adjective for unstable in Spanish is gender neutral.

Vertigo

El vértigo

Dizziness

Los mareos, el mareo

Dizzy

Mareado(a)

Weakness

6:41

Weakness

La debilidad

Weak

Débil

The adjective for weak in Spanish is neutral and does not change based on gender.

Fatigue

La fatiga, el cansancio

Sleepiness or drowsiness

El sueño, la somnolencia

Drowsy

Somnoliento(a)

Impaired Cognition

8:03

Hallucinations

Las alucinaciones

Confusion

La confusión

Confused

Confundido(a)

Difficulty remembering things

La dificultad para recordar cosas

Head Trauma

9:05

Blow to the head

El golpe en la cabeza

To hit one’s head

Golpearse la cabeza

When speaking of accidents or injuries such as breaking a leg or hitting your head, we use the pronominal form of the verb. Romperse la pierna. Golpearse la cabeza. He broke his leg. Se rompió la pierna. Oh, I hit my head. Me golpeé la cabeza.

To lose consciousness

Perder el conocimiento, perder la consciencia

To faint

Desmayarse

Note that this is a pronominal verb. I faint. Me desmayo.

Concussion

La conmoción cerebral, la contusión cerebral

We also use the word CONTUSIÓN to refer to bruises or contusions in other parts of the body. Sufrió una contusión en el muslo.

Seizures

11:26

Seizure

El ataque convulsivo

Convulsions, seizures

Las convulsiones

Gloria, my teacher from Mexico, recommends using CONVULSIONES in its plural form, as it may sound weird to ask someone, ¿Ha tenido alguna vez una convulsión? To Gloria, this sounds like we’re asking about one convulsion of the body rather than a series of convulsions that make up a seizure. In this case, Gloria suggested. Ha tenido alguna vez convulsiones? That being said, my teachers outside of Mexico have told me that using una convulsión to refer to a seizure is perfectly fine.

To convulse or seize

Convulsionar

Muscular spasms

Los espasmos musculares

Repetitive movements

Los movimientos repetitivos

Involuntary movements

Los movimientos involuntarios

To stare into space or to stare blankly

Estar con la mirada perdida

Tremor

El temblor

To shake or tremble

Temblar

To lose bladder control

Perder el control de la vejiga

To lose bowel control

Perder el control intestinal, perder el control de los intestinos

To bite one’s tongue

Morderse la lengua

So when we perform an action on ourselves, we use the pronominal verb, MORDERSE. followed by the body part, LA LENGUA. I wash my hands. Me lavo las manos.


Gracias por estudiar español médico con nosotros.

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