Medical Spanish Podcast
Learn Neurological Symptoms in Spanish!
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.
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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.
Sensation3:01Feeling 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 5:26Balance 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)
Weakness6:41Weakness
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 Cognition8:03Hallucinations
Las alucinaciones
Confusion
La confusión
Confused
Confundido(a)
Difficulty remembering things
La dificultad para recordar cosas
Head Trauma 9:05Blow 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.
Seizures11:26Seizure
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.
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