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Spanish words for anatomy/Memory Tools Pt.2

Updated: Dec 31, 2019

Hola todos! This is part 2 of body parts in Spanish with memory tools!


 

Key

Orange text: Similar-sounding words in English to help you remember

Picture this: Funky scenarios that will give you a visual image of the word

Think of: References to history, present-day pop culture, people, etc. so you can make links with the word!

Looks like: Words that look like English words


 


La mano- hand

You use your hand to do manual work


La mejilla- cheek

Picture this: "The tortilla flew out of my mouth and onto my cheek"


La muela- molar, tooth

La muñeca- wrist

Note: Muñeca also means ´doll´ in Spanish

To link these two definitions together, think of a girl holding a doll by the wrist

La nariz- nose

El oído- inner ear

Picture This: oh weeeee do! you could hear the sirens through your inner ear

El ojo- eye

Picture this: The word "ojo" looks like two eyes with a nose


El ombligo- navel, belly button

La oreja- outer ear

El párpado- eyelid

Sounds like: "part"- think of your eyelids parting to open your eyes


Las patillas- sideburns

El pecho- chest

El pelo, el cabello- hair

La pestaña- eyelash

El pie- foot

My foot stepped in the pie on accident


La piel- skin

My skin started to peel after being in the water for too long


La pierna- leg

El pulmón- lung

Our lungs pull in and out air to breathe


La rodilla- knee

Our knee helps rotate our leg around


La sangre-blood

(kind of sounds like sacred-think of blood being sacred in some religions)

El sudor-sweat

After a long workout, our sweat leaves a strong odor


El talón-heel

Looks Like: The strange shoe store sold high heels with heels as sharp as talons!



La tez-complexion

El tobillo-ankle

Picture this: Toby-O was walking with his other brothers, Toby-A and Toby-B. Toby-O wasn't aware of where he was walking, and accidentally tripped on an old witch's ankle. She cursed Toby-O and turned him into a putrid ankle. To memorialize him, tobillo means ankle in Spanish.


La uña-fingernail, toenail

La vena-vein

Sounds like vein


Thank you for reading! Please leave a like and comment (this took me a while to make ;-;)


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