A lady came to see the doctor today and complained of hinchazón in her legs. They were swollen.

The verb is hincharse.

When giving directions to someone, derecha is right and derecho is straight.

When talking about personal or legal rights, derechos is the correct word.

With the doctors today we dealt with a lot of numbness in hands and feet. Therefore I learned the word entumecido which is numb.

To go numb, or to become numb is entumecer.

Reaching into the medical vocabulary is always intimidating. This week I am assisting a medical team by doing some basic translating. It is amazing to me how that there are many common words we use almost every day in English that I have no idea as to how to say in Spanish.

Today I had to look up estornudar, to sneeze. While I can show the action of sneezing, it sure would be more professional if I new the word estornudar.

I was talking with a friend who grew up in Argentina. She told me that there were quite a few gypsies there. She told me this in English and I never really thought what the word for gypsy would be in Spanish. Tonight on a TV show I saw the word gitano used for gypsy.

According to one website I read, there are more than 300,000 gitanos in Argentina.

Hipoteca is a mortgage. I have not been able to figure out what the root words for hipoteca means, but mortgage means ‘dead pledge.’

Hipoteca is similar to the word used in many other languages.

Did you know there are different names for the inside and outside of a corner?

The outside of a corner is called la esquina.

The inside of a corner is called el rincón. We have several restaurants here in town that have the word rincón in there name.