Informed consent is important anywhere that you practice. Getting informed consent includes explaining the risks of the surgery to the patient. Zipf’s Law applies to the vocabulary of surgical risk, of course (although I don’t know if it applies to the actual adverse effects themselves or not). Here are some words that come up in the discussion of risks of hand surgery on this web page about hand surgery:
- conllevar: most of the meanings are in the area of entailing or bringing (as in power bringing responsibility), conveying or carrying (as in a feeling), or implying or involving. Another sense is to bear or put up with. La mayoría de las cirugías conllevan los riesgos de la anestesia y de hemorragia.
- la sensibilidad: feeling, sensitivity. Pérdida de sensibilidad o movimiento de la mano o los dedos.
- coágulo: clot, blood clot. Pueden formarse coágulos de sangre.
Zipf's Law 
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