1. las edades ages

2. la niñez childhood

3. la pubertad puberty

4. la juventud youth

5. la adolescencia adolescence

6. la madurez maturity

7. la vejez old age

8. el desastre disaster

9. atropellar to run over

10. caer to fall

11. chocar to crash

12. cochebombas car bomb

13. el corte cut

14. un diluvio flood

15. epedemia epidemic

16. huracán hurricane

17. matar to kill

18. la peste pestilence; epidemic, stink

19. tropezar to trip

20. la enfermedad sickness

21. la gripe flu

22. neumonía pneumonia

23. paperas mumps

24. el resfriado el catarro a cold

25. rubéola rubella a mild illness that includes a rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and sometimes a fever. If a pregnant woman is infected during her first trimester, however, her baby has a 80% chance for developing birth defects, including heart abnormalities, cataracts, mental retardation, and deafness.

26. sarampión measles outbreaks still occur in the United States, usually among groups of people who do not believe in immunizations or in areas where immunization levels have fallen below the critical level. It is a fairly serious childhood infection that is recognized by the rash (as seen here), Koplik spots (small white spots on red background), red eyes, photophobia (sensitivity to light), and coughing.

27. SIDA AIDS

28. viruela small-pox virus has been eradicated worldwide through successful vaccination and treatment programs, and now exists only as a stored virus in a few research centers. Symptoms include a severe rash (which leaves scars), fever, headache, vomiting and diarrhea.

29. varicela chicken pox extremely contagious, and can be spread by direct contact, droplet transmission, and airborne transmission. Symptoms range from fever, headache, stomach ache, or loss of appetite before breaking out in the classic pox rash. The rash can consist of several hundred small, itchy, fluid- filled blisters over red spots on the skin. The blisters often appear first on the face, trunk, or scalp and then spread to other parts of the body.

30. los medicamentos medicines

31. aspirina aspirin

32. las drogas drugs

33. el járabe syrup

34. el linimento linament

35. la medicina medicine

36. arriesgarse to take a risk

37. doler to hurt; to cause pain

38. a dieta on a diet

39. contagiar to spread an illness

40. piel de gallina goose bumps

41. atender to tend to; to aid

42. asistir to attend

43. la cura el cura the cure priest

44. embarazoso embarazada embarrassing pregnant

45. el frente la frente war front forehead

46. los reflejos el reflejo reflexes reflection

47. aprovechar to use; to benefit

48. brotar to sprout, to grow

49. mejorar to get better

50. quebrar to break