Covid-19

1 Introduction

The English–Spanish Dictionary of COVID-19 was first published in electronic format, under the name Glosario de covid-19 (EN-ES), in early May 2020 thanks to the support of Tremédica, which offered to host it on its website, and of Cosnautas, which took care of the technical details of putting it online. It was compiled in order to collect and organise the basic English terminology relating to COVID-19 and to propose carefully considered Spanish equivalents as a practical aid for the translators, interpreters, writers, journalists and science communicators who have to translate and disseminate high-quality information on the subject.

In its first version (v. 1.01), it brought together more than 3,200 headwords relating to the medical, molecular, virological, pharmacological, economic and social aspects of COVID-19, its causative agent SARS-CoV-2 and coronaviruses in general. A good number of them dealt with the various types of masks and respirators. The dictionary also included some neologisms and phrases that were very popular on social media at that point in the pandemic.

In its current version (v. 2.03, February 2022), now officially called the English–Spanish Dictionary of COVID-19, it contains a total of 6,593 headwords, most of which refer to virological concepts, scales, vaccines, diagnostic tests and medical devices related to COVID-19; these complement the earlier headword list or have been added in response to queries received. It is a phraseological dictionary, with usage notes and conceptual information. A selection of the headwords was published in 2020 as a supplement to the journal Panace@ and the corresponding PDF can be downloaded free of charge from the Tremédica website: <www.tremedica.org/wp-content/uploads/panacea20-51_sup_glosario_covid-19.pdf>.

By May 2021, the glossary had received just over 47,500 visits on the Tremédica website. Since June 2021 it has also been published on the Cosnautas website, under its new name and still as a free resource. We are delighted to be able to add this resource to the Cosnautas catalogue and trust that it will continue to be useful to readers.

Readers may send their comments and suggestions to the following address:  glosario.covid19@gmail.com.

Readers can send their comments and suggestions to the following email address: glosario.covid19@gmail.com.

2 Authors

María Verónica Saladrigas holds a PhD in Biological Sciences, specialising in Molecular Biology (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1993), and has 27 years of experience as a technical or medical translator and reviser (English or French>Spanish) for international organisations and pharmaceutical companies, twenty-three of them in the Drug Regulatory Affairs Department of Novartis Pharma AG in Switzerland, where she currently heads the EN>ES translation team for Latin America. She is a member of MedTrad and a co-founding member of Tremédica. She is the author of the English–Spanish Clinical Research Dictionary on the Cosnautas platform. She is a co-founder of the journal Panace@ and currently sits on its editorial board.

Fernando A. Navarro holds a degree in Medicine (Universidad de Salamanca, 1986) and is a specialist in Clinical Pharmacology (Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, 1991), with 33 years of experience as a freelance medical translator for pharmaceutical companies, international organisations and companies in the biomedical sector. He is an honorary member of Tremédica, Asetrad, IAPTI and UniCo. He is the author of the Dictionary of Doubts and Difficulties in English Medical Translation, the Repertoire of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms and Symbols Used in Spanish Medical Texts and the Comprehensive German–Spanish Medical Dictionary, all on the Cosnautas platform. He is a co-founder and was the first editor-in-chief of the journal Panace@.

Paz Gómez Polledo holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983), a diploma in Occupational Medicine (Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo, 1987) and a PhD in Medicine (UCM, 1989). She has worked as a surgeon in hospitals in Madrid, as a general practitioner in primary care centres, as an acting forensic physician at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Alicante and as an occupational physician for Alicante City Council. She has been a freelance English>Spanish medical translator for 35 years, and is also a reviser and writer of medical and pharmaceutical texts in Spanish, a teacher and the author of a blog on medical translation. She is a co-founding member of Tremédica, Asetrad, Medtrad and UniCo, and a member of the European and Spanish medical writers’ associations (EMWA and AERTeM). She sits on the editorial board of the journal Panace@.

Laura Munoa holds a degree in Medicine (Universidad de Salamanca, 1982) and has been a freelance translator for publishers, pharmaceutical companies, international organisations and companies in the biomedical sector since 1989. She is a member of MedTrad and a co-founding member of Asetrad and Tremédica. She was deputy editor of the journal Panace@, on whose editorial board she sits, and is the compiler of the Árbol de Cos, a collection of links on medical language published on the Cosnautas platform.

3 Collaborators

Contribution and translation of examples for the English–Spanish Dictionary of COVID-19: Ana Atienza, Lida Barbetti, Inmaculada Caracuel, Iolanda Casacuberta, Rossana Couto, Ana Durán, Nur Ferrante, Lorenzo Gallego, María Hernández, Mar Jiménez, Raquel Lázaro, Valentina Luridiana, Roser Mas, Laura Pruneda, María Ruiz, Susana Sánchez, Rosario Sanz, Nora Torres and Teresa Triana.

Layout, illustration, revision and electronic publication of the abridged online English–Spanish Dictionary of COVID-19, respectively: Jorge de Buen (Imprimátvr), Marta Morón, Alejandro García-Aragón and Valentina Luridiana

4 Acknowledgements

To the following members of Tremédica and Cosnautas, who have backed the initiative and worked on the project from the outset: Javier Orellana, Alberto Roca, Álvaro Villegas and José Antonio de la Riva Fort.

To the following professionals and members of Tremédica, who have contributed and translated many of the examples that accompany some of the headwords: Ana Atienza, Lida Barbetti, Inmaculada Caracuel, Iolanda Casacuberta, Rossana Couto, Ana Durán, Nur Ferrante, Lorenzo Gallego, María Hernández, Mar Jiménez, Raquel Lázaro, Valentina Luridiana, Roser Mas, Laura Pruneda, María Ruiz, Susana Sánchez, Rosario Sanz, Nora Torres and Teresa Triana.

To Pilar Castillo Bernal, editor-in-chief of the journal Panace@, and to the Panace@ team who made it possible to publish the “Glosario de covid-19 (EN-ES) abreviado” as a supplement to Panace@ in January 2021: Jorge de Buen (Imprimátvr, layout), Marta Morón (illustration), Alejandro García-Aragón (revision) and Valentina Luridiana (electronic publication).

To healthcare professionals and essential workers around the world, especially those who lost their lives in the line of duty during the global pandemic.

To all the companies committed to the fight against COVID-19.

To the publishers that have made books and journals available free of charge so that healthcare professionals, researchers, science communicators, translators and interpreters have access to the information they need in the fight against coronavirus disease.

To all those whose selfless acts and sense of humour have brightened our endless hours of lockdown.

5 Citation suggested for the general online dictionary

Saladrigas, M.V., Navarro, F.A., Gómez Polledo, P., Munoa, L. (2021). Diccionario de covid-19 (EN-ES). Cosnautas. <https://www.cosnautas.com/es/covid/index>

6 Bibliography