investigación médica
/imbestiɡaθjon medika/from spelling rules
Medical research in Spanish is investigación médica.
This phrase refers to scientific study and investigation aimed at improving health and treating diseases. If the research specifically involves human subjects or clinical trials, you can use the more precise term investigación clínica. Related terms include investigador for researcher, descubrimiento for discovery and muestra for sample.
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase is composed of investigación, meaning research or investigation and médica, meaning medical.
Which one should you use?
While investigación médica is a standard term, you might use investigación en medicina to mean research in medicine or estudios médicos to refer to medical research or clinical trials.
Is it said differently in some regions?
In Spain, investigación en medicina is used to refer to medical research, whereas investigación en medicina is also a formal way to express medical research in Latin America.
How does it change in a sentence?
In Spanish, the adjective médica follows the noun investigación and must agree in gender (feminine). To express the plural form, such as medical studies, use investigaciones médicas.
Did you know?
- The word investigación shares its root with the English word 'investigate', both stemming from the Latin 'investigare' which means 'to track or follow a footprint'.
- While investigador means 'researcher', the same word is used in Spanish for a 'detective' or 'private investigator'.
- In Spanish, the word muestra used in medical research for a 'sample' also means a 'gesture' or a 'sign' of emotion, such as una muestra de afecto.
Examples in context
- El científico está realizando una investigación médica.The scientist is conducting medical research.This sentence shows how to say a scientist is conducting medical research using investigación médica.Tatoeba #2727893 by emanuel81, translation #681913 by Source_VOA
- El Teletón es un programa de TV francés organizado todos los años para recolectar fondos a fin de financiar la investigación médica.The telethon is a French TV program organized every year to collect funds in order to finance medical research.This sentence describes using funds to finance medical research using investigación médica.Tatoeba #678473 by humbertovs, translation #703148 by papabear
- ¿Estás participando en alguna investigación médica? No, pero he leído muchos estudios sobre medicina.Speaker A: Are you involved in any medical research? Speaker B: No, but I've read many studies about medicine.
- ¿Qué opinas sobre los avances recientes en investigación médica? Creo que los descubrimientos actuales son prometedores para el futuro de la medicina.Speaker A: What do you think about the recent advancements in medical research? Speaker B: I believe the current discoveries are promising for the future of medicine.
- La investigación médica requiere mucho tiempo y dinero.Medical research requires a lot of time and money.
Example conversation
Javier and Lucía are talking at a university cafeteria.
- Javier¿En qué trabaja tu hermana?What does your sister do for a living?
- LucíaElla hace investigación médica en el hospital.She does medical research at the hospital.
- JavierEse es un trabajo muy importante.That is a very important job.
- LucíaSí, pero es bastante agotador.Yes, but it is quite exhausting.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries investigación, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
