Medical Spanish Vocabulary
Molecular Bio and Biochem
Hopkins History
Geography
100

The word "lungs" in Spanish

What is Los Pulmones

100

The base that pairs with uracil

What is adenine?

100

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.

100

What neighborhood, containing Homewood Campus, used to be called “Peabody Heights”?

Charles Village

200

The word "jaw" in Spanish

What is La Mandibula

200

The Central Dogma of Biology

What is DNA encodes RNA encodes Protein?


200

The first two Hispanic graduates from Johns Hopkins University

Primitivo Leija Niño and Francisco Chairez, 1920’s

200

The capital of Mexico 

Mexico City

300

"Blood pressure" in Spanish

What is Presión Arterial

300

The enzyme that transcribes DNA

What is RNA Polymerase II?

300

Notable Hispanic alumni that graduated from Johns Hopkins University

Monica Guerrero Vazquez, now executive director of Centro Sol

300

Charles Street connects Johns Hopkins to what other University?

Loyola

400
"Heart Attack" in Spanish

What is Infarto de miocardio?

400

An ionizable amino acid that has a positive charge when protonated.

What is Lysine/Histidine/Arginine?
400

the Big Four of Johns Hopkins

Sir Willima Osler (medicine), William Stewart Halstead (surgery), William Henry Welch (pathology) and Howard Atwood Kelly (obgyn)

400

The Port of Baltimore is located on the shore of what major bay?

Chesapeake Bay

500

 “Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctor” in Spanish

What is Otorrinolaringóloco?

500

The enzyme that charges tRNAs

Amino-acyl tRNA synthetase

500

the most popular major at Hopkins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

500

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is located in which Neighborhood?

East Baltimore/Middle East

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