laboratorio de cateterismo
/laboɾatoɾjo de kateteɾismo/from spelling rules
The English phrase 'cath lab' is translated into Spanish as laboratorio de cateterismo.
This phrase refers to a specialized room in a hospital where doctors perform cardiac catheterization and other minimally invasive heart procedures.
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase is a literal translation where laboratorio means laboratory and cateterismo means catheterization.
Which one should you use?
While laboratorio de cateterismo is a direct translation, medical staff in many Spanish-speaking hospitals more commonly use the term sala de hemodinámica (hemodynamics room) to refer to the cath lab.
How do you pronounce it?
/laboɾatoɾjo de kateteɾismo/
Did you know?
- The word laboratorio shares a root with the English word 'labor'. Both derive from the Latin labōrātōrium, which originally referred to a place where hard work or toil was performed.
- Medical staff often shorten the technical term sala de hemodinámica to the simple slang hemo when speaking informally.
- The word hemodinámica in sala de hemodinámica comes from the Greek 'haima' (blood) and 'dynamis' (power), describing the movement and pressure of blood.
Examples in context
- Este paciente necesita ser trasladado a hemodinamia para un procedimiento.This patient needs to be transferred to the cath lab for a procedure.
- El paciente necesita un cateterismo cardíaco urgentemente. Por favor, trasládenlo a hemodinamia de inmediato.The patient urgently needs a cardiac catheterization. Please transfer him to the cath lab immediately.
- El paciente está en el laboratorio de cateterismo.The patient is in the cath lab.
- Necesitamos limpiar el laboratorio de cateterismo ahora.We need to clean the cath lab now.
- ¿Dónde está el laboratorio de cateterismo?Where is the cath lab?
Example conversation
A nurse and a doctor are talking in a hospital hallway.
- Alejandro¿Está listo el laboratorio de cateterismo?Is the cath lab ready?
- MaríaSí, Alejandro, ya está todo preparado.Yes, Alejandro, everything is ready.
- AlejandroPerfecto, voy hacia allá.Perfect, I'm heading there.
- MaríaTe espero en la entrada.I'll wait for you at the entrance.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries cateterismo, de, laboratorio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
