Rioplatense Spanish (Spanish: español rioplatense, locally Spanish: castellano rioplatense) is a dialect of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the areas in and around the Río de la Plata basin of Argentina and Uruguay, and also in Rio Grande do Sul. Some features of this dialect are also shared with the varieties of Spanish spoken in Eastern Bolivia and Chile. The usual word employed to name the Spanish language in this region is castellano (English: Castilian) and seldom español (English: Spanish) (see: Names given to the Spanish language). Note that while this article refers to Rioplatense...

Yeísmo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟ͡ʝeˈizmo]) is a distinctive feature of many dialects of the Spanish language, which consists of the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme /ʎ/ (written 〈ll〉) and its merger into the phoneme /ʝ/ (written 〈y〉), usually realized as a palatal approximant or affricate. In other words, 〈ll〉 and 〈y〉 represent the same sound /ʝ/. The term yeísmo comes from the Spanish name of the letter 〈y〉 (ye). The opposite term is lleísmo (pronounced: [ʎeˈizmo]), which is attested sparingly in some fewer subvarieties, and refers to the distinction of /ʝ/ (spelled...

El voseo es un fenómeno lingüístico dentro de la lengua española en el que se emplea el pronombre «vos» junto a ciertas conjugaciones verbales particulares para dirigirse al interlocutor en lugar de emplear el pronombre «tú» en situaciones de familiaridad. Por extensión, se puede referir al mero uso del pronombre «vos» o, por el contrario, al mero uso de sus conjugaciones verbales junto al pronombre «tú». Se distinguen dos tipos de voseo: El voseo reverencial, que consiste en usar el pronombre «vos» para dirigirse reverencialmente a la segunda persona gramatical —tanto singular como plural—...

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza viruses. The most common symptoms are chills, fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache (often severe), coughing, weakness/fatigue and general discomfort. Although it is often confused with other influenza-like illnesses, especially the common cold, influenza is a more severe disease caused by a different type of virus. Influenza may produce nausea and vomiting, particularly in children, but these symptoms are more common in t...

Fever (also known as pyrexia or febrile response) is one of the most common medical signs and is characterized by an elevation of body temperature above the normal range of 36.5–37.5 °C (97.7–99.5 °F) due to an increase in the temperature regulatory set-point. This increase in set-point triggers increased muscle tone and chills. As a person's temperature increases, there is, in general, a feeling of cold despite an increase in body temperature. Once body temperature has increased to the new set-point temperature, there is a feeling of warmth. A fever can be caused by many different medical conditions...

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