Medical Spanish Vocabulary
The word "lungs" in Spanish
What is Los Pulmones
The base that pairs with uracil
What is adenine?
The first Latino to obtain an MD in the United States
Jose Celso Barbosa was the first Latino (Puerto Rican) to graduate from medical school in the US.
What neighborhood, containing Homewood Campus, used to be called “Peabody Heights”?
Charles Village
The word "jaw" in Spanish
What is La Mandibula
The Central Dogma of Biology
What is DNA encodes RNA encodes Protein?
The first two Hispanic graduates from Johns Hopkins University
Primitivo Leija Niño and Francisco Chairez, 1920’s
The capital of Mexico
Mexico City
"Blood pressure" in Spanish
What is Presión Arterial
The enzyme that transcribes DNA
What is RNA Polymerase II?
Notable Hispanic alumni that graduated from Johns Hopkins University
Monica Guerrero Vazquez, now executive director of Centro Sol
Charles Street connects Johns Hopkins to what other University?
Loyola
What is Infarto de miocardio?
An ionizable amino acid that has a positive charge when protonated.
the Big Four of Johns Hopkins
Sir Willima Osler (medicine), William Stewart Halstead (surgery), William Henry Welch (pathology) and Howard Atwood Kelly (obgyn)
The Port of Baltimore is located on the shore of what major bay?
Chesapeake Bay
“Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctor” in Spanish
What is Otorrinolaringóloco?
The enzyme that charges tRNAs
Amino-acyl tRNA synthetase
the most popular major at Hopkins
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is located in which Neighborhood?
East Baltimore/Middle East