Episode Details

In this lesson, we will practice Spanish for routine medical checkups and monitoring. Specifically, we will look at the words “control” and “controlar” in this setting.  To do this, we will use examples from our Spanish for Prenatal Care series.

Member? Access the Prenatal Care module in our Reproductive Health Course. 

Table of Contents

• 1:03 Medical Checkups
• 2:42 Keeping Track
• 3:34 Monitoring

Medical Checkups – Controles

1:03

First, let’s look at the use of CONTROL to say CHECKUP in Spanish.  From my interview with Dr. Méndez:

Durante los controles prenatales, nosotros hacemos pruebas de coagulación.

During prenatal checkups, we do coagulation tests.

Vocabulario

los controles prenatales
prenatal checkups

las pruebas de coagulación
coagulation tests

Otro Ejemplo

Additionally, Eliza used the word CONTROL to describe what we cover in the Spanish for Prenatal Care series:

1:57

Los procedimientos que se realizan durante los controles prenatales

The procedures that are performed during prenatal checkups

Keeping T