Skip to content

seguimiento

follow-up

noun seh-gee-MYEHN-toh Less Common

Also means

monitoring

Usage Note

Seguimiento comes from seguir (to follow) and denotes the act of tracking, monitoring, or following up: seguimiento médico (medical follow-up), seguimiento satelital (satellite tracking). It is also used in journalism for ongoing coverage of a story. Hacer un seguimiento de means 'to follow up on.'

Examples

"El médico hará un seguimiento del paciente."

Natural Translation

The doctor will follow up on the patient.

Explore Spanish by topic