| abrasion | rozadura
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| absences, tardies | inasistencias, impuntualidades
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| achondroplasia (dwarfism) | acondroplasia (enanismo)
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| acoustico-mnestic aphasia, acoustic-mnestic aphasia | afasia acústico-amnésica
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| aforementioned | consabido, susodicho
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| agenesis | agenesia
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| air conduction | conducción aérea
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| amniocentesis | la amniocentesis
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| amniotic fluid | líquido amniótico
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| application for admission | solicitud de admisión
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| backing (linguistics, phonology) | posteriorización
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| banner, sign | cartel, pancarta, rótulo, banderola, letrero
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| battered (such as in "battered child syndrome") | apaleado
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| behavioral | conductual
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| bell curve | curva de campana, curva de Gauss, campana de Gauss
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| belligerent | belicoso, agresivo, contrario
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| beltloop, belt loop | pasacinto
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| bias | prejuicio, inclinación, parcialidad
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| bone conduction | conducción ósea
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| book report | reseña (de un libro), reseña (literaria)
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| borrower | prestatario
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| breast pump | extractor de leche, sacaleches
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| buckle, belt buckle | hebilla
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| candidate, applicant | postulante
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| cap and gown | toga y birrete
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| capitalize, capitalization (in writing conventions) | mayusculizar, mayusculización
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| carrel | tabique
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| carry (carry an unborn child in the womb)/gestate | gestar (transitivo okay)
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| carry out, to practice | ejercitar, practicar, realizar
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| castor oil | aceite de ricino
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| chayote squash | chayote (mex), pataste (honduras), güisquil (guat)
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| chord (music) | acorde
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| Christmas carol | villancico
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| circumcised | circuncidado
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| citizenship (as a subject in class) | civismo
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| cleft palate (submucous) | paladar hendido (submucoso)
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| club foot | pie "zambo;" equino varo
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| color blindness | daltonismo
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| color vision | visión cromática
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| conservatorship | curatela, tutela, curaduría
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| consonant clusters, consonants blends | grupos consonánticos (also: sinfones - limited use)
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| contractions | contracciones (uterinas)
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| counteract | contrarrestar
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| counterproductive | contraproducente
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| CPD cephalopelvic (head to pelvis) disproportion/disproportionment | desproporción cefalopélvica
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| crosswalk | cruce de peatones
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| crowded (teeth) | dientes apiñados, amontonados
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| culture (noun, medical) | cultivo
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| decriminalization | despenalización
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| default, phrase: the default | por defecto (lo asignado por defecto, opción/configuración por defecto), por omisión
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| delivery (delivery of services) | suministro, entrega
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| depth perception | percepción de la profundidad
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| developmental | maduracional
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| digraph | digrama, un digrama
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| discomfort thresholds | umbrales de disconfort
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| discussions (one option) | diálogos
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| distance runner | fondista
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| distance vision | visión lejana
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| drop-down list | lista desplegable
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| easel | caballete
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| elaborate (verb) | profundizar, explicar, aclarar, esclarecer, puntualizar
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| end to end (medical) | término-terminal, terminoterminal
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| environment, setting, context, surroundings | ambiente, situaciones, contexto, entornos, sitio, contornos, en el marco de
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| etiology | etiología
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| extemporaneous | improvisado
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| extenuating circumstances | circunstancias atenuantes
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| eye balls | globos oculares
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| fluctuate | oscilar
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| forensic | forense
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| foresight/forethought | previsión, providencia, prudencia
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| fronting (linguistics, phonology) | anteriorización
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| get at the heart of a subject | desentrañar
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| goiter | bocio
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| grasp, clutch | empuñar
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| grid | rejilla
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| grind your teeth | rechinar dientes
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| group home | hogar colectivo
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| hamstring | hamstring / bíceps femoral
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| handicapping (adjective) | debilitativa, incapacitativa
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| hatch (verb) | eclosionar
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| helplessness | impotencia
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| hemiparesis | hemiparesia
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| HIB vaccine | hemófilo-influenza B
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| historian | historiógrafo
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| I, John Doe, do hereby certify that | Yo, John Doe, por la presente certifico que [or por medio de la presente]
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| ice cream | helado, mantecado, nieve, sorbete, "ais crin"
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| IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | Ley de Educación de Individuos con Discapacidades
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| if memory serves | si mal no recuerdo
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| inconclusive | no concluyente (inconcluso just means unfinished)
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| inconsistent | inconstante, irregular, inconfiable, esporádico
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| induce (labor) | provocar
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| inmates | reclusos, reclusas
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| introduction, body, conclusion | introducción, desarrollo, y conclusión; párrafo de introducción, párrafos de desarrollo, párrafo de conclusión
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| issues (one option) | cuestiones de (to avoid using problemas)
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| jaundice / jaundiced | ictericia / ictérico
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| kyphoscoliosis | cifoescoliosis
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| label, to label (figuratively) | catalogar (one option)
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| labor (labor you pay for) | mano de obra
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| lead (verb), be in the lead | llevar la delantera
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| licorice | regaliz
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| manic-depressive | maniacodepresivo
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| maroon | corinto, guinda
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| mean (in math) | la media
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| median (in math) | la mediana
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| mediate | arbitrar
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| miscarriage | aborto espontáneo
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| mode (in math) | la moda
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| momentum, inertia | inercia
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| nares | fosas nasales
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| nasal flaring | aleteo nasal
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| near vision, close vision | visión cercana
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| NSVD (Normal Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery) | Parto Vaginal Espontáneo Normal
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| okra | quingombó
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| ones, tens, hundreds (decimal places) | unidades, decenas, centenas
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| one-way mirror, two-way mirror | espejo transparente
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| orthodontist | ortodoncista
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| otoscope | otoscopio
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| pair, match, mate | aparear(se)
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| peripheral vision | visión periférica
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| phrase (in linguistics) - verb phrase, prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, etc | sintagma, un sintagma (contexto lingüístico) - sintagma verbal, sintagma preposicional, sintagma adverbial, etc
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| pin the tail on the donkey | ponle la cola al burro
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| pivotal (approximate. one option) | desequilibrante (aproximadamente. es una opción)
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| place value | valor posicional
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| platypus | ornitorrinco
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| playdough, play-dough, play-doh, play doh | plastilina (technically, plastilina is modeling clay, but it can be understood to refer to play-doh)
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| postage paid | franqueo prepagado
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| postmark | matasellos
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| pound the pavement (looking for work) | tocando puertas
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| praying mantis | fraile rezador
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| prioritize | priorizar
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| proxies | apoderados
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| psychoeducational | psicoeducativo, psicoeducativa
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| pulsating | pulsátil
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| QID quater in die (four times per day) | una dósis - cuatro veces al día
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| QNST (Quick Neurological Screening Test) | cuestionario neurológico breve
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| quadriplegia | tetraplejía
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| RAD reactive airway disease | enfermedad reactiva de las vías respiratorias
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| random | aleatorio
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| range | margen, rango, límite, extensión, campo
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| rapport | simpatía
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| rash | erupción
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| rattle | sonaja, sonajero
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| raw (as in "raw score") | bruto
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| recurrence | reiteración, recursividad, redundancia
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| reduplication (linguistics / phonology) | reduplicación
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| referral (as in a behavioral referral) | citatorio (possible translation)
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| refrain | abstenerse
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| reindeer | reno
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| remainder (in math) | residuo
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| removal (surgical) | extracción, excisión
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| revoke | rescindir, revocar, "cancelar"
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| rickets | raquitismo
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| rooting (digging/poking with the snout) | hociqueo
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| rule out | descartar, eliminar
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| scheme, plot (verb) | tramar
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| self-blame (self blame) | autorreproches
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| shorthand (=~stenography) | taquigrafía
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| shunt | derivación, desviación, anastomosis
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| SIDS sudden infant death syndrome | síndrome de muerte súbita del lactante
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| slides (noun, as in film) | diapositivas
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| snap (noun, clothing) | broche (in context)
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| sprinter | velocista
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| squint | bizquear
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| stab (food with a fork) | pinchar
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| standard deviation | desviación típica
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| Stereo Fly | mosca estereoscópica
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| stopping (linguistics, phonology) | oclusión
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| subject-verb agreement | concordancia sujeto-verbo
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| suckling | chupeteo
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| suede | gamusa
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| suicidal ideation | ideación suicida
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| swollen glands | ganglios inflamados, hinchados
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| tag | juego de "la(s) traes"
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| take the lead | tomar la delantera
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| talker / talkative | platicador
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| tentatively | provisionalmente
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| this or that (insert noun) | tal o cual ____
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| tic-tac-toe (tic tac toe) | 3 en raya
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| TID ter in die (three times per day) | una dósis - tres veces al día
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| tinsel | oropel
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| trial and error | el ensayo-error
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| tripod grasp | prensión trípode, "el trípode manual"
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| trivial | frívolo
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| truancy | ausentismo crónico; absentismo; ausentismo excesivo, marcado
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| trusteeship | fideicomiso
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| TTY (teletype) or TDD (Telephone Device for the Deaf) | teleescritor
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| typed double-spaced (double spaced) | mecanografiado a doble espacio
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| utterance | enunciado, locución
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| vault ("palatal vault") | bóveda
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| VCUG voiding cystourethrogram | cistouretrograma de evacuación
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| videofluoroscopic swallow study | videofluoroscopia de la deglución
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| voiding cystogram | cistograma miccional
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| VP shunt | derivación ventriculoperitoneal
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| waiver / excusal | dispensa, exento/exención/eximir; desistimiento, renuncia/renunciar a
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| word problems (in math), story problems | (contexto: matemáticas) problemas verbales, problemas de enunciado verbal, "situaciones problema," (acertijos matemáticos, maybe)
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| Worsteshire Sauce | salsa inglesa
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| yours truly, OR at your service | su servidor |
