hemolizado
/emoliθado/from spelling rules
The English word 'hemolyzed' is translated into Spanish as hemolizado.
In a medical context, this term describes red blood cells that have ruptured and released their contents.
Which one should you use?
The forms provided in this guide change based on the gender and number of the noun being described. Use hemolizado for masculine singular, hemolizada for feminine singular, hemolizados for masculine plural and hemolizadas for feminine plural. While these describe the state of being hemolyzed, the noun for the process itself is hemólisis.
How does it change in a sentence?
The word hemolizado is a past participle used as an adjective. It must agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies. For example, you would use hemolizada to describe la muestra (the sample), which is a feminine singular noun.
How do you pronounce it?
/emoliθado/
Did you know?
- The gender of hemolizado is determined entirely by the noun it modifies, such as la muestra (the sample), rather than the person the blood came from. Even if the patient is male, a sample is described as muestra hemolizada because 'muestra' is feminine.
- In a medical report, seeing the word hemolizado functions as a red flag, signaling that the entire blood test result might be invalid. It acts more as a warning about the sample's integrity than a description of a single cell.
- In some Spanish-speaking hospitals, a muestra hemolizada is treated as a 'pre-analytical error', a specific category of mistake that happens before the test even begins.
Examples in context
- Los análisis de sangre revelaron un caso de sangre hemolizada.The blood tests revealed a case of hemolyzed blood.
- El paciente tiene un exceso de suero hemolizado.The patient has an excess of hemolyzed serum.
- El análisis falló debido a un glóbulo rojo hemolizado.The analysis failed due to a hemolyzed red blood cell.
Example conversation
A laboratory technician and a doctor are discussing a blood test result.
- AlejandroElena, el resultado de la prueba salió mal.Elena, the test result came out wrong.
- Elena¿Es porque el suero está hemolizado?Is it because the serum is hemolyzed?
- AlejandroSí, la muestra se ha hemolizado por completo.Yes, the sample has been completely hemolyzed.
- ElenaEntiendo, tendré que pedirle una nueva muestra al paciente.I understand, I will have to ask the patient for a new sample.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
