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telek' I am ill, I am sick, I am physically unwell

kweskwesek' I have a cold, I caught a cold

meges doctor, white doctor, medical doctor

meskwok' I doctor someone

moykek' I die (used of gods, plants, and animals)

telogehl "small animate objects which in the body of an ordinary person cause disease but in the body of [a doctor] give her clairvoyance and the faculty of curing", pain, disease, illness

lepehlek' I ache

hewolon heal, cure (the body, an illness)

kegey doctor, Indian doctor

kyrnikrhl sprain

po'oh get well, heal (intr.), scar, healed sore

telogumek' I am in pain, I resent

tmentmen throb, ache

megenep' it moves or stretches in an elastic way (like an inchworm, or in a belly-ache or body building), it (someone's stomach) aches

'ochek' I sneeze

melo' brush dance officiant, medicine woman

mrtrlrp' nasal mucus, runny nose

punomihl malicious thoughts (cause of illness in someone else), contamination, bad omen

chulusew runny eyes

hlkekwolek' I limp, I am lame, I am crippled

hoorurehlek' I feel sick, I feel nauseous, I have nausea

kesomuy corpse, dead person

kwes'oyew prayer doctor

kwes'oyewek' I treat (used of prayer doctor)

kwetoyos pear-shaped piece of wood put near fire in wishing ill on someone

kya' sore, ulcer

kya'hl'oo' open sore, ulcer, open wound

kyrnikrt sprain

k'limowok' I feel ill

luuwoloyek' I cramp, I have a cramp

mechomi' venereal disease, the clap

megeyoo miscarry, die soon after birth, be stillborn, lose children in childbirth

mekwa'r menstrual hut

mek'woh pus

me'yk'wah boil (skin affliction), pus

mrsrw ointment

nrrwrt visit the sick

punomihlkok'

roowo's hegoh a plant whose leaves are used for colds

sewkwelumek' I am bruised

sleyehl substance like mucus which contained a pain object

slryhlkrp'ok' I blow my nose

soo' cascara tree, chittamwood, cascara tree bark used as laxative

tinuumonok crazy person

weyoksek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

weypegar there is an epidemic

yonikwo' become sprained

'ochomek' I sneeze

'ochomok' I sneeze