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Is there somewhere I can go to find medical jargon in spanish? I am a nurse and am learning Spanish to talk with my patients. I need to ask about their pain level, taking blood pressure, temperature, where it hurts, etc. Any advice?

Hola. When in doubt, try Google :D . I put "medical terms spanish" (without the quotation marks) into Google and found a bunch of sites. Among those that seemed they might be what you're looking for are these two (the first seemed especially promising): *[url=http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/Spanish/Medical_terms/]http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/Spanish/Medical_terms/ [/url]* *[url=http://www.noah-health.org/:1jvsh4zh]http://www.noah-health.org/[/url:1jvsh4zh]*

is there somewhere I can go to find medical jargon in french? I am a medicalstudent and am learning french to talk with my patients. I need to ask about their pain level, taking blood pressure, temperature, where it hurts, etc. Any advice?

Since many students of Rocket (in my case Spanish) are learning for local patients or perhaps for medically related foreign travel - it would be a good suggestion for the Business model of Rocket Spanish to create a Rocket Spanish Medicine series. I really like the Rocket format and this could well be applied for this.

I am interested in a MEDICAL FRENCH COURSE.Thanks

Hola! Most (if not all) spanish medical terms are derived from latin and greek, so they will be written very very similar to those in English or any other language. There should be plenty of information online, just look for "Términos médicos" , or "lenguaje médico". I'll give you some examples, everyword that ends with -logy (meaning "study of" in greek) would be writen -logía in spanish. Every medical term that ends withe -pathy, will end -patía, all the words that end with -itis also end with -itis in spanish. Besides the endings (sufix), all the prefix would be basically the same....cardiopathy=cardiopatía...Pathology=Patología, Neurology=neurología, Hepatitis=Hepatitis, Necropsy and autopsy....you can guess Necropsia and Autopsia. Have a great day!

This thread reminds me of a story I heard from back in my days as a firefighter: a fire department in California thought it would be a good idea to teach their paramedics Spanish because of the many people there who only spoke that language. One of the newly-bilingual medics tried to ask an elderly lady if she was having chest pain, and got a laugh in response. Apparently he was asking if her breasts hurt.

There is a Medical Spanish in Rocket Spanish Premium Plus. Look under survival lessons

Chest pain haha!.