examinado

Examinado is a term used in Spanish and Portuguese as the past participle of the verb examinar, meaning someone or something that has been examined or tested. As an adjective, it denotes that a subject has undergone inspection, evaluation, or inquiry. It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: examinados or examinadas in plural, and examinada or examinada in feminine forms, alongside the masculine singular examinadó? Wait, that is a risk. Let's fix this clearly.

Correction: In Spanish, masculine singular is examinado, feminine singular examinada, masculine plural examinados, feminine plural examinadas. In Portuguese, masculine singular is examinados, feminine singular examinada, masculine plural examinados, feminine plural examinadas. The important part is that the form changes to reflect gender and number.

In practice, examinado appears in medical, legal, academic, and administrative texts to indicate that an item or person has undergone examination. Examples include: “la muestra examinada” (the examined sample), “el informe examinado” (the examined report), or “el paciente examinado” (the examined patient). In many contexts, “examinando” is used to refer to the person undergoing an examination (the examinee) rather than the subject that has already been examined.

Etymology and related terms: examinado comes from the verb examinar, itself from Latin examinare, related to testing, weighing, or evaluating. Related terms in the same family include examen (exam/test), examinar (to examine), and exame (in Portuguese).

See also: examen, examinar, exame.